Thank you for your report. I am really sorry that I missed the license files. I know that Microsoft provide their fonts for free of charge, however a license should be required. So I will update my PKGBUILD with a license later. (It's a 128MiB package and maybe I will spend hours testing it, so please be patient to see the update) However I do not know Apple's license policy. I wonder what is the best way to solve the problem with osx-fonts
I apologize for my mistake. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Non-Free font packages > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:44:52 +0100 > > Hi, > Today I noticed the following packages on the AUR, osx-lion-fonts [1] and > win7-fonts [2]. > Both of these packages download the fonts from an FTP server which appears to > be operated by the maintainer, not from any kind of official source and > although > they both specify "Custom" as the license neither of them install a license > file (or show any indication that the maintainer has permission to > redistribute > the files). > To me, this gives the appearance that the archives linked to are probably > copyright infringing. > As I understand it, PKGBUILDs which link to infringing sources are generally > frowned upon which is why others for Win7 fonts (for example) require the > user > to manually acquire and copy the font files. > > Could a TU and/or the maintainer (who is CCed in) investigate and clarify the > situation. > > Thanks > > GeorgeB > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61979 > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61978
