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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Liberation Fonts vs agfa-fonts [was: Re: dropping packages]
  • From: "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:50:16 -0600
  • Message-id: <200811032050.16804.rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 03 November 2008 04:04:29 am Michael Loeffler wrote:
On Monday 03 November 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
...
 - we won't put agfa-fonts back on our media, the decision to go
"nice EULA" is set. Some may love commercial software, but it's a
pain in the neck and we (the openSUSE "managers") decided to leave

yes, agfa-fonts would stop us providing a redistributable licence with
11.1 and agfa-fonts come at cost. There's always tension between a
free downlaodable Linux distro and useful proprietary software which
comes with a $ sign on top.
M

If that means going to their web site, like in the case of RealPlayer, than it
is still fine. In another OS that is the way in any case.

Though, it would be fine if you can publish the price tag for retail version
that will include that kind of $oftware, and the one without.

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Regards, Rajko
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