[Slackbuilds-users] Microsoft fonts

[Matteo Bernardini]

because Microsoft keeped distributing the webcore fonts until at least
2009, so they probably packaged vista fonts too...

https://web.archive.org/web/20091208063245/http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm

the tarball we are using on SBo is the one redistributed by Avi Alkalay in
2007

https://avi.alkalay.net/articlefiles/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html

Matteo

Il giorno lun 24 apr 2023 alle ore 16:55 Petar Petrov <slackalaxy at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> for the record, the webcore fonts project was terminated in 2002,
> right? So, how come we have Calibri and co, from Vista? I am not
> arguing or being a dick, just wondering.
>
> -petar
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 17:49, Matteo Bernardini
> <matteo.bernardini at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > if you ask me I don't think they can be repackaged (=> I don't think
> that the AUR maintainer for those is not breaking any license).
> >
> > Matteo
> >
> > Il giorno lun 24 apr 2023 alle ore 16:45 Petar Petrov <
> slackalaxy at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >>
> >> Hi Matteo,
> >>
> >> thanks for the clarification. So, what shall we do about the fonts from
> the ISO?
> >>
> >> -petar
> >>
> >> On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 at 17:41, Matteo Bernardini
> >> <matteo.bernardini at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > hi Petar,
> >> >
> >> > the state of the webcore fonts is more permissive as they have been
> already distributed in the past and they are packaged from their original
> exes, please see
> >> >
> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web
> >> >
> >> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web#Program_termination_and_software_license_agreement_issues
> >> > (read the first paragraph of this bit carefully)
> >> >
> >> > I don't think that this licensing could be applied also to the fonts
> found on a windows iso.
> >> >
> >> > Matteo
> >> >>
> >> >>
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