I'm filing this under ttfonts-ko because there's no other component suitable although fonts in question are not truetype fonts but CID-keyed fonts. Description of problem: In the mid 1990's, South Korean ministry of culture (now ministry of culture and tourism) released a set of postscript fonts (freely distributable). Later Ken Lunde of Adobe turned them to CID-keyed fonts and put them up at ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/cjkvinfo/adobe/samples With freetype2, fontconfig and Xft, it's very easy to use them in Gtk2 and Qt application programs. (in the past, you have to go through X11 font configuration). Ghostscript can be configured to make use of them as well.
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This is rather a feature request from Korean users. I have updated the product as it is still not included in our products. Please review the request. Regards, David Joo
also assigning it to right person...
Thanks. I'm going to move this to devel and mark it as a FutureFeature request. (It's unlikely that these fonts will be added as an update to an existing release -- that doesn't usually happen.)
This is not that important. What's a lot more important is bug 112877.
Munhwa fonts are not GPL'd. So that the comment copied from bug 112877 is not relevant. Korean government put them in the public domain for anyone to use them in whatever way they like. Anyway, if Redhat does not think what's acceptable to Adobe is acceptable, just resolve this as 'wont fix'. I don't have time to dig up old mail exchanges between me, CHOI JunHo, Ken Lunde and a Korean government official.
I tried to find some license information at the ftp site but could not find any. Is it best to ask Ken Lunde et al about that? Without adequate license information I am afraid the fonts cannot be included in Fedora. (We are actually just starting a process now to try to separate our generic CJK fonts packages (fonts-*) into separate packages named after the upstream projects.) If the fonts can be redistributed and modified under a free license, I encourage you or someone kindly to submit the fonts as a package to Fedora following the process explained at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
requested by Jens Petersen (#27995)
un-core-fonts is now in Fedora and un-extra-fonts is also under review. Do we still need this?
alee-fonts is also under review.