[Pkg-fonts-devel] about maintaining ttf-arphic-* packages

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi list,

 I'll adopt and continue to maintain those ttf-arphic-* packages under 
 pkg-fonts-devel umbrella with Arne's help and close related wnpp bugs.
 (especially who has knowledge about Chinese font are welcome).


 Arne told me about those fonts are updated, but with non-DFSG-free license.
 http://www.arphic.com/cn/news/2010/20100420.html (in Chinese)

 The new license is here, rar archived Microsoft word file ;)
 http://www.arphic.com/tw/download/public_license.rar
 I put it converted to text http://www.mithril-linux.org/~henrich/debian/ARPHIC_PUBLIC_LICENSE_20100309.txt

 In that text,

>0. Definitions:
(snip)
>   "Freely Available" means that you have the freedom to copy or modify
> the Font as well as redistribute copies of the Font under the same conditions
> you received but only for non-profit purpose.

 "but only for non-profit purpose", this is violated DFSG (5).


>1. Copying & Distribution
>   You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of this Font in any medium,
> without restriction, provided that you retain this license file
> (ARPHICPL.TXT) unaltered in all copies but only for non-profit purpose.

 I cannot find ARPHICPL.TXT in rar archives ;), anyway "but only for non-profit 
 purpose" is there, too.

 So, newer Arphic fonts are not able to be distrubuted in Debian (sadly).
 We should stay current version in Debian.


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYaman