Takao Fonts - community developed derivatives of IPA Fonts - are available.

Takao Fonts Maintainers, which is mainly made up of the members of
Ubuntu Japanese Team, has recently released Takao Fonts, that are
community developed derivatives of IPA Fonts (which are default fonts
for Japanese in openSUSE distribution ATM).

https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts

Although IPA Fonts are high quality Japanese outline fonts, they are
released under the IPA Font license which allow us to modify and
redistribute them on the condition of avoiding to use the word "IPA" for
derivatives' name and following some other restrictions. This
restriction means that only IPA can modify and release the IPA Fonts and
3rd party communities are prohibited to apply any patch and release them
with the name "IPA Font" even if we found bugs on them.

Takao Fonts Maintainers aim to avoid this problem by changing the fonts
names.

I think Takao Fonts can be alternatives to IPA Fonts and have curiously
built packages of these fonts on my home project in OBS, using examples
from IPAPGothic.spec file in openSUSE:Factory repo.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=takeo-fonts&project=home%3AHeliosReds

Since I'm not sure whether I am doing this right or not, I would be
thankful if someone will review the spec file that I used for Takao
Fonts packages and point out my mistakes when there are some.

And, if the fonts work well, I'd propose replacing IPA Fonts with these
Takao Fonts in the future release of openSUSE.

Best,

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