At Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:55:23 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
Takao Fonts Maintainers, which is mainly made up of the members of Ubuntu Japanese Team, has recently released Takao Fonts, that are community developed derivatives of IPA Fonts (which are default fonts for Japanese in openSUSE distribution ATM).
https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts
Although IPA Fonts are high quality Japanese outline fonts, they are released under the IPA Font license which allow us to modify and redistribute them on the condition of avoiding to use the word "IPA" for derivatives' name and following some other restrictions. This restriction means that only IPA can modify and release the IPA Fonts and 3rd party communities are prohibited to apply any patch and release them with the name "IPA Font" even if we found bugs on them.
Takao Fonts Maintainers aim to avoid this problem by changing the fonts names.
I think Takao Fonts can be alternatives to IPA Fonts and have curiously built packages of these fonts on my home project in OBS, using examples from IPAPGothic.spec file in openSUSE:Factory repo. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=takeo-fonts&project=home%3AHeliosReds
The IPA font spec file is a bit outdate. You can clean up the spec file for new packages a bit. Namely, - Recent packages tend to omit "Authors" list in the package description - The conversion of *.txt via dos2unix is unlikely needed for this package - Better to use %{version} to Sources and %setup macro as much as possible Otherwise looks fine to me. Feel free to submit first to M17N repo. Then we can adjust fonts-config to put this as a preferred font, then eventually submit to openSUSE 11.3. There are a few places where IPA fonts are used statically, e.g. in the installation. These can be fixed once after this new font is merged. Thanks! Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+help@opensuse.org