Re: Truetype fonts in mozilla/galeon

["Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Nathan Weston <elbows@spamcop.net> writes:

  >> Except that the msttcorefonts package uses wget to grab a .cab
  >> archive of the MS fonts from the MS website... and they
  >> discontinued the free distribution of these fonts a month or two
  >> back, and the license terms did not allow for redistribution.

It's true that they are no longer available from Microsoft.

It's emphatically _not_ true that the license terms do not allow for
redistribution.  What they do not allow is that (a) you change the
packaging (each copy must be a "true and complete copy, including all
copyright and trademark notices"), or (b) distribute them on a
for-profit basis.

This is problematic for Debian main, etc. which is why they were
obtained via wget in the first place, rather than put directly into the
distribution, but it doesn't mean you can't use them.

  nw> The MS fonts may have been mirrored somewhere... or you can just
  nw> find a friend with windows and copy their fonts

There's a project at SourceForge where you can download them:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/

I haven't installed the msttcorefonts package in a while but it seems to
me that you can tell it where to get the fonts file; if so you can
download them by hand then let msttcorefonts install them for you.


Anyway, the problem has been resolved in msttcorefonts 1.1.0, currently
in Debian unstable.

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