Bugzilla – Bug 84150
Request for inclusion of MgOpen fonts
Last modified: 2005-12-01 14:40:06 UTC
On May 15th, the font-company "Magenta" has donated 4 font families under a license equivallent to that of Bitstream Vera fonts These fonts are of high quality and have been sold commercially by the aforementioned company until recently. These contain the Latin1 set (iso-8859-15) and the Greek set (iso-8859-7) while one of these (MgOpenCanonica) also contains the glyphs for ancient Greek (polytoniko). The fonts and all relevant information may be found at: http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en These are the only high-quality opensource fonts containing Greek glyphs. All other fonts are either of lesser quality (freefont), or not opensource (agfa fonts). We would like to see these packaged in all SuSE/Novell distributions and we can provide spec file and/or rpms if you wish.
Package submitted to autobuild for inclusion in the next version of SuSE Linux.
Packages for SuSE Linux 9.3 are here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.3/noarch/mgopen-fonts-0.20050518-0.1.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.3/src/mgopen-fonts-0.20050518-0.1.src.rpm Closing as FIXED.
Stefan Dirsch added mgopen-fonts to the selections in order to install it by default when the installation is done in Greek or Greek is selected as a secondary language.
It seems that these fonts are not included in SuSE 10.0 retail version.
Sorry, this is probably my fault. I pasted the text of the license in our package database and selected as license type "Commercial" because it was none of the well known open source licenses but something different. It didn't occur to me that this meant a high risk that the package would not end up on the media. I should have selected "Other uncritical open source license" instead. This is fixed now, therefore the package should appear on the next SuSE version. Adding our license expert Jürgen Weigert <jw@suse.de> to the CC.
Assign bug to Rüdiger Oertel <ro@suse.de> to make sure to include the package in the next release.
"next release" -> adapting product license part still to be verified.
license verified. Effectivly identical to bitstream license. Go ahead.
hm: "Effectivly identical to bitstream license." bitstream-vera: "Commercial (all types)","Free Text available" mgopen-fonts: "Other uncritical OpenSource License","Free Text available" so one is "pay" the other is "oss" ...
Commercial is more often 'all types' than 'pay'. Corrected bitstream-vera to 'Other uncritical OpenSource License'.
- added to FACTORY tree - lars: please have a look if the CDs still have space for these two: bitstream-vera and mgopen-fonts
on ToDo for next alpha...
ok: added bitstream-vera and mgopen-fonts - and dropped other packages for the next oss-cds. FYI: We've more than 3000 packages on 5 700MB-CDs for OSS now - no more space left on device... => fixed for these two and some other packages - but not for all...