This happened only this week, from what I can tell. The old text was effectively public domain, the new one explicitly forbids almost everything, including mirroring. I don't know if that can be applied retroactively, but either way this package has become a danger zone.
Checking with archive.org, it appears that the license change happened some time early 2018 already, and the last version to be released under the old, permissive license is 10.24: > In lieu of a licence; fonts and documents in this site are free for any use (February 2018) https://web.archive.org/web/20180212144935/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > Free use of the software on this site is strictly limited to personal, non-commercial use (March 2018) https://web.archive.org/web/20180302032711/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ The EULA was introduced in April 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20180420071257/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ I will drop 11.00-r1 and maybe last-rite the entire package.
(In reply to Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn from comment #1) > Checking with archive.org, it appears that the license change happened some > time early 2018 already, and the last version to be released under the old, > permissive license is 10.24: AFAICS the transition occured between 10.23 and 10.24, so 10.23 would be the last free version. (But probably it doesn't matter, unless we could get a zipball of 10.23.) > I will drop 11.00-r1 and maybe last-rite the entire package. Indeed, mirror restriction makes little sense with upstream's unversioned zipballs. Also SRC_URI is gone.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=be61c3297494bba141abd69069e841739149730e commit be61c3297494bba141abd69069e841739149730e Author: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-03-29 20:44:20 +0000 Commit: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-03-29 20:44:20 +0000 media-fonts/symbola: drop 11.00-r1 due to license restrictions Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715226 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.89, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> media-fonts/symbola/Manifest | 2 -- media-fonts/symbola/symbola-11.00-r1.ebuild | 31 ----------------------------- 2 files changed, 33 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dfd4ba714bebfec9f325f768542ea060a070a5f7 commit dfd4ba714bebfec9f325f768542ea060a070a5f7 Author: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-03-29 21:12:38 +0000 Commit: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-03-29 21:14:05 +0000 profiles/package.mask: last-rite media-fonts/symbola Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715226 Signed-off-by: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
Dep tree is broken because media-fonts/infinality-ultimate-meta depends on this.
I removed the dependency from media-fonts/infinality-ultimate-meta https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1b1fb7dadb870eb3c87867fdca57e40ceec87d4d
FWIW it seems Debian has that font packaged: https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-symbola
(In reply to Hanno Böck from comment #7) > FWIW it seems Debian has that font packaged: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-symbola See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897047: "... the latest version of the fonts are no longer compliant with the DFSG and can't be distributed in Debian main."
See also this discussion on the Fedora devel list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EC6I35ILFICKY5W5XTHYJC6UH36B2UQS/
Just to clarify, my pointing to debian was merely a: "Debian mirrors are a place where we can find older versions with the old license and where they won't go away any time soon".
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0df4c7b11be6e8bdd3af724c93c8968551c83312 commit 0df4c7b11be6e8bdd3af724c93c8968551c83312 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-04-01 11:58:44 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-04-01 11:59:16 +0000 media-fonts/symbola: Update LICENSE, add mirror restriction. The last version distributed under the "Unicode_Fonts_for_Ancient_Scripts" terms was symbola-7.17, see the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20141027122717/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Versions from 7.18 to 10.24 were distributed under "free for any use" terms, and upstream has explicitly refused to clarify if this includes the right to modify and/or redistribute. This is not better than not having any license at all (i.e., "all-rights-reserved"). Later versions (after 10.24) are even more restrictive and e.g. have a non-commercial and non-educational clause. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715226 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.96, Repoman-2.3.22 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> media-fonts/symbola/symbola-8.00.ebuild | 5 +++-- media-fonts/symbola/symbola-9.17.ebuild | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Is there any replacement font available for us? Characters like '🚚' are missing now.
(In reply to Massimo Burcheri from comment #12) > Is there any replacement font available for us? > Characters like '🚚' are missing now. That is U+1F69A DELIVERY TRUCK. It is rendered here with the "Unifont Upper" font, which is installed by media-fonts/unifont.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=62cf7d5a108b17a1fb7c95c57aaa36ab25903c8f commit 62cf7d5a108b17a1fb7c95c57aaa36ab25903c8f Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-05-23 08:27:34 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-05-23 08:29:35 +0000 media-fonts/symbola: Remove last-rited pkg Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715226 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> media-fonts/symbola/Manifest | 2 -- media-fonts/symbola/metadata.xml | 12 ------------ media-fonts/symbola/symbola-8.00.ebuild | 31 ------------------------------- media-fonts/symbola/symbola-9.17.ebuild | 31 ------------------------------- profiles/package.mask | 7 ------- 5 files changed, 83 deletions(-)
