Hi, At a quick glance, I can't see that ttf-root-installer is doing anything that msttcorefonts does not do, aside from grabbing a different version of the fonts from a different URL. FTP-masters seem not to have been critically opposed to ttf-root-installer.
Whether ROOT upstream is legally permitted to make the older MS fonts available in the tar.gz form is unknown to me, but I would hope they would have checked into this. (Fons?) In any case, the Debian package is nothing more than an installer, so to the best of my knowledge (IANAL), any legal liability for this distribution would fall on ROOT upstream and not on Debian. Christian Holm wrote: > The fonts distributed from the ROOT FTP server are very old - some 8+ > years or so, while the fonts of the msttcorefonts package are "updated" > versions of these. The time-stamp on the files on the ROOT ftp server > are > > corfonts.exe 1998-11-26 00:00:00 > ttf_fonts.tar.gz 2001-04-20 00:00:00 > > The font packages on sourceforge all have timestamps from 2002 or later. I worry that these (older) fonts may come from before MS started distributing them under a quasi-permissive license. Does anyone know the date for that offhand? Or whether MS specified that the msttcorefonts license applies to all versions of the fonts, or only to the specific versions they released under it? I tend to think that ROOT should be fixed upstream to either work with the current versions of MS fonts, or (even better) to use whatever true-type fonts are installed on the system. But obviously there isn't enough time for that to be implemented before the Lenny freeze. So given the choice, if there is any legal ambiguity it is probably best just to get rid of the ttf-root-installer binary package for now. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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