Need advice for Bug #

Yasuaki Taniguchi/谷口康明 yasuakit at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 23:56:19 EDT 2011


Hello, Cristian and developers.

Thank you for your handling my submission.

FAQ of IPA font (http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/faq.html) is
written only in Japanese.
So it may be difficult to decide whether we can use and IPA fonts.

Your question can be divided into three questions. The two questions
are about license of IPA
fonts, and the other is about GnuCash svn policy.

License 1) Can we include IPA fonts into GnuCash svn repository and
redistibute them via SVN?
If we do *not change* font files at all *with license file*, we can
include them into svn.

Many Linux distributions contain IPA fonts. The license of IPA fonts
is enough free for Debian
to redistribute them. See the following URL:
http://packages.debian.org/en/squeeze/otf-ipaexfont

License 2) Can we embed IPA fonts into PDF files and put PDF files on
GnuCash web pages?
The answer is yes. According to Japanese FAQ 5, embedding for digital
file is *not* redistribution.
So it's no problem.


Policy 1) Should we include IPA fonts into GnuCash svn?
Advantages:
 - All people can generate Japanese PDF files without problem, once we
include IPA fonts, no matter
   witch operating system they use.

Disadvantages:
 - IPA fonts are very large (about 10MB) and gnucash-docs will be
increased by 10%.
 - Many Linux distributions and *BSD provide IPA fonts as their packages. If you
   install them via their distributions, all you can do is making
symbolic links.
 - Not so many people generate Japanese PDF file.


In fact, I thought that including IPA fonts into svn isn't approved. So I wrote
ja/Makefile.am to emit error messages if IPA fonts don't exist. But if
we approve
to include IPA fonts, it is better because many developers are kept
out of trouble.

Regards,
 Yasuaki

2011/8/14 Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it>:
> I need an advice about the bug in object [1]. The patch that Yasuki
> submitted needs the creation in the guide/ja_JP folder of an ipaexafont
> folder containing the files downloaded from
> http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/index.html. If these files and folder are
> not present, the pdf generation is broken. My question is: can I submit to
> the gnucash documentation repo the font files downloaded from the previous
> link? I haven't yet carefully read the license file.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Cristian
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654467
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