Pixel wrote:
Well, IANAL but if some of you are lawyers please take a look at the
acommpanying licence, I've extracted for your convenience at:
http://mircea.interplus.ro/MS-EULA
The relevant paragraph seem to be:
[snip...]
1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights:
* Installation and Use. You may install and use an unlimited
number
of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
* Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute
an
unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each
copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and
trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA.
Copies
of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may be distributed as a standalone product or
included with your own product. Copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not
be
sold or distributed for any kind of fee.
[snip...]
Please if you are a law person take a look at the full document and
enlighten us !!!
Mircea C.
>
> Mircea Ciocan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Strangely enough, it seem that they are under certain conditions ( like
> > distributing the original dos executable archive with the fonts !!!), it
> > seem that Bill forget to mention in the licence agreement that they MUST
> > be used only on doze OS or probably they just want to promote them and
> > the IE friendly pages, anyhow they render Internt pages and normal stuff
> > very beautiful and if someone wants to try them ( I'll be extra happy if
> > the legal department of Mandrake Soft will study the licence and include
> > them in official distribution :) they are mirrored here:
> > http://mircea.interplus.ro/webfonts-1-3.noarch.rpm
>
> As far as i've looked, the only accepted form is dowloading for use.
> Duplicating the .exe on another server may be allowed?...
>
> If this could be done, we could have an automatic tool which would download
> those fonts and install them. Would be nice :)
>
> I don't think we could have more than this.
> And if we can't copy the .exe on another server, downloading from microsoft is
> kind of fragile. They just have to change the location or decide enough is
> enough!
