Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 14.26, Amish Munshi wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 	I have a file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf which is not
> owned by any package. I did
>
> #rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf
> file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf is not owned by any
> package
>
> 	I would like to know if this font is provided by microsoft,

Indirectly. It was installed on your system through YaST Online Update from 
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net. At one point Microsoft released these fonts 
gratis on the net. They have since removed that offer, but the licensing 
terms they used allowed people to keep distributing them, as long as they are 
distributed in the original .exe format and (this is why they can't be 
included in the box I think) you may not charge for it. Look 
at /usr/share/doc/corefonts/EULA.html for the full license terms

> 	if yes then 
> I would like to introduce suse to www.indictrans.org where suse
> developers can download the GPL fonts called Gargi and Padma (for indian
> languages like Hindi and Gujrati).
> 	What is the licencing issue with this font, and I would anyways suggest
> SuSe developers to include gargi and padmaa since they look better than
> arial.ttf available at http://www.indictrans.org

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