On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jun Kobayashi <jk...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> If we are permitted to patch the IPA Fonts itself or the upstream is > open and release fixed version quickly considering our request, it's > better to work with the upstream and make IPA Fonts better. Since the package is in Debian main, patches should be permitted. > But we are prohibited to distribute modified IPA Fonts by its license If that is true, then otf-ipafonts needs to be moved to non-free. > and IPA takes much time until the new version release. It took 10 months > in fact from past version to current version though past version widely > known including some problems. This is understandable considering they > are governmental organization and they are cautious for their activity. > But if we find bugs on IPA fonts, all we can do is reporting to IPA and > waiting fixed by them. This can cause to distribute buggy Japanese fonts > to Debian and other distributions users for months. This is why we create > community developed version, Takao Fonts and I think Takao should be > included into Debian. Why not just add the patches to the otf-ipafonts Debian package until IPA accepts them? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/h2ke13a36b31004022026v9758cbf9x4f7d24543a3e0...@mail.gmail.com
