[Live-demo] OSGeo Live v3 Build 5

Pirmin Kalberer pi_ml at sourcepole.com
Mon Feb 8 11:31:09 PST 2010


The ossim and osgearth packages in ubuntugis are now using ttf-liberation.
Pirmin

Am Montag, 8. Februar 2010 schrieb Hamish:
> Alex wrote:
> > I agree mscorefonts while they can be used with a lot of apps, we don't
> > need to be passing them around. In fact to be legal I think you're
> > supposed to have a copy of windows on the same machine or some random
> > thing like that.
> 
> """
> Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.0) ...
> 
> These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross-
> platform compatibility".  This is no longer the case, but they are
> still available from third parties.
> 
> You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use,
> but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes
> to the file name or packaging format.
> """
> 
> 
> IIUC extracting the .ttf from the .exe installers constitutes modification.
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
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