Microsoft fonts in xfree ebuild: licensing problems

santi___ · Last edited by santi___ on Sat Aug 24, 2002 3:27 pm; edited 2 times in total

I found that you can download ms fonts from here.
It would be good if anyone could make an ebuild for this.

santi___ · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 6:56 am Post subject:

Well, I got bored

and I did this.

Please test it and send comments.

boa13 · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 2:59 pm Post subject:

Good idea! The redistribution of the fonts hosted on SourceForge is legal, according to the EULA they contain. There's no licensing problem in using them in Gentoo (or anywhere else). They're also very good fonts, notably they have very good hints for small sizes.
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santi___ · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 3:24 pm Post subject:

It appears that they are included with the xfree ebuild. Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype

But there is a problem with the license as they are not distributed in its original form (.exe .cab). I filed a new bug.

Besides my ebuild includes the tahoma font, that is not included with xfree.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

santi___ · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 2:50 am Post subject:

No, what I'm saying is that the fonts are included in the truetype.tar.gz archive that is installed when you emerge xfree, and are not distributed in its original form.