On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Paul Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In speaking with Debian Developer Changwoo Ryu, maintainer of bf-utf, > xfonts-baekmuk, and other packages, he told me that the Hanterm fonts > have previously been removed from Debian because of concerns over > ambiguity of their license. > ... > I got the copy of the Hanterm fonts that I used in the "unifont" > package from a FreeBSD distribution that stated that those fonts were > released under GPL. Fedora also listed them under GPL. However, if > there was concern over ambiguity with the licensing of those fonts in > Debian in the past enough to cause their removal elsewhere in Debian, > it seems necessary to remove any trace of them from the "unifont" > package (and anywhere else they might still be lurking unnoticed). >
Here is what I've been able to find: * 1 Nov 1999: Chu-yeon Park posts ITP for hanterm, hanterm-fonts-johab, with follow-ups suggesting xfonts-johab as a better name for the font package. These fonts are the same that were used to generate Hangul in every version of the Debian "unifont" package, past and present. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/11/msg00004.html * The listing for the hanterm package in potato, http://archive.debian.net/potato/hanterm, shows package xfonts-johab as not available, but does show the xfonts-baekmuk package as available. Changwoo Ryu is the current maintainer of xfonts-baekmuk. * The original hanterm package became hanterm-classic, and wasn't included in the etch release. * No reported bugs for xfonts-johab are archived at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=xfonts-johab * Various build records found on the net complain that a "Suggests: xfonts-johab" dependency can't be met for hanterm in potato. I could not find an actual message saying "we must remove the xfonts-johab package from Debian because..." Changwoo Ryu was involved with the 1999 hanterm thread. I'll go on his memory that xfonts-johab was removed because of concerns with ambiguity of the licensing for those fonts. Can I replace the existing Hangul Syllables block in the unifont package with ones that Changwoo Ryu added to his bf-utf-source copy of unifont.bdf to avoid any potential concerns? Paul Hardy GPG Key ID: E6E6E390 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
