On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 09:13 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
MS TrueType Fonts are no longer available, and there's a mess of licensing restriction surrounding them. Basically you can't get them anymore unless you know how to do it yourself.
See http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm for details.
The MS TrueType fonts are available here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ in a nice easy-to-install package. Apparently at one time the fonts were available under a licence which wasn't too restrictive so you can still use these ones under that non-restrictive licence.
IIRC the main restrictions was that they could only be distributed in their original .EXE installers and could not be shipped as part of a collection.
Corefonts gets around the issues by having the .spec file download and extract the fonts out of .EXEs downloaded from the SF site and building a local rpm that you can install but not distribute.
I've used it in the past and it works pretty well.
Regards, Paul