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Bug 881589 - media-fonts/freefont has incorrect LICENSE
Summary: media-fonts/freefont has incorrect LICENSE
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2022-11-17 04:56 UTC by ganooslashlinus
Modified: 2022-11-18 04:07 UTC (History)
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Description ganooslashlinus 2022-11-17 04:56:53 UTC
LICENSE="GPL-3"

https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/license.html
Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 
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 As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. 


Should be: LICENSE="GPL-3+-with-font-exception"
Comment 1 ganooslashlinus 2022-11-17 04:59:45 UTC
Also, HOMEPAGE probably should be changed from: savannah.nongnu.org to: https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont