Re: founder fonts dropped, how to use old ones

At Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:41:47 +0100,
PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> 
> > > But I still can't find the fonts of the former FZKaiTi, FZKaiTiB, FZFangSong, FZMingTiB, FZSongTi.
> > > 
> > > Am I right to assume that they have been dropped due to unsolved copyright issues?
> > 
> > I guess so.  It's a commercial font package.
> > There are a few alternatives in M17N project.
> 
> By reading the package documentation once more, I have noticed that it would still be possible for
> Novell (and by implication probalby its successor) to include these fonts within its distribution.
> 
> The English translation of item 3 of the copyright notice
> 
>     3.Making use of founder fonts in any form in any non-commercial or commercial;
> 
> is wrong.
> 
> The original says
> 
>     3．将方正字库以任何形式用于除Novell系列产品外任何商业的或非商业的软件或产品；
> 
> which means
> 
>     3. Making use of founder fonts in any commercial or non-commercial product
>        except for the Novell system products.
> 
> Thus I think it would be appropriate for Opensuse to include these packages in the non-oss
> repository once more.

Well, openSUSE distro is built from OBS repos.  And, this sort of
packages isn't appropriate for OBS, thus it can't be bundled with
openSUSE distro.  Keeping the package in OBS allows everyone to create
a new image that doesn't belong to the category, for example.
(I wonder even openSUSE distro itself is no longer Novell product,
too.)

Note that the SLE-distros are built from different (internal) BS, thus
they can contain such packages without problems.

In short, we should push more cleaner open-source fonts for OBS and
openSUSE distros.


thanks,

Takashi
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