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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:27:18 -0600 |
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Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote: |
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> In bug #218288, it was brought to our attention that |
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> media-fonts/sharefonts, which has been in our tree under a |
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> public-domain LICENSE, is anything but. Each of the fonts in this |
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> collection is released under a variety of restrictive or non-free |
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> licenses, the majority being shareware licenses that require the user |
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> to make payment to the author for continued use (usually $5 after 30 |
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> days). Many of these fonts are also crippled with the full version |
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> available for a fee. |
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> As such, I've masked sharefonts for removal in 30 days. There have |
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> been no new releases since it was added to portage in 2002, and no |
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> changes excepting keywording since 2004, so I'm hoping this doesn't |
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> impact too many people. I apologize to those it does. |
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So it seems that Gimp's Script-Fu uses one of the fonts from this |
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collection. Also, that poopy licenses aren't really a reason to remove |
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a package. I'm agreeable to that, however a few of the fonts prohibit |
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distribution in any form without permission of the author. My current |
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plan is to remove those fonts from the package, add the individual |
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licenses for the rest to the tree, and add a Here be Dragons msg to to |
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pkg_setup. Does this seem the correct course of action? |
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fonts, gcc-porting, by design, by neglect |
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mips, treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect |
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wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 |