Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo
Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
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At Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:34:01 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >>> The *new* IPA fonts have a known problem: in Qt applications, alphabets > >>> are displayed as Zenkaku - full-width characters. I installed these > >>> packages on my openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 box and confirmed the problem on > >>> KDE4 desktop. > >> Thanks for the follow up! > >> Is it Qt4 or Qt3? > > > > OK, I could reproduce it on my machine, too. > > It looks like a known problem of Qt3 regarding OTF. A workaround is > > simply convert from OTF to TTF. > > > > Now the IPA font package on M17N:Devel repo does the conversion via > > fontforge. Could you give it at try again? > > I installed newly updated packages and as far as I can see, they work > fine now. > > However, there are descriptions below in "IPA Font License Agreement": > > Article 3 (Restriction) > > 1. If a Derived Program is Redistributed pursuant to Paragraph 4 and 7 > of the preceding Article, the following conditions must be met : > > [snip] > > (4)No one may use or include the name of the Licensed Program as a > program name, font name or file name of the Derived Program. > > [snip] > > http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/#LicenseEng > > Do you think there shouldn't be any problems if we use 'IPA*' for names > of the packages, that include converted ttf files ? That's my concern, too. If the systematic conversion to TTF can be regarded as a derivative work, we'll have to rename it. Maybe we need to fix this sooner or later. I'll keep this for a while just for testing purpose, though. Or, we can do in a different but stupid way: convert the fonts on the fly at installation. Then there is no license problem because the on-machine conversion is no distribution. But I don't think this is the way to go. The best solution is, of course, to fix Qt3. But I guess no one has a guts to challenge it... thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]