Firmicus wrote:

Hi everyone

I just noticed that two packages in AUR appear to install fonts whose use is illegal.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408

I think these are fine in their current format. Can never actually be distribute in a package by us though.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16470 (here the fonts themselves are pirated)

These should be deleted. Allan

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 07:39, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi everyone

I just noticed that two packages in AUR appear to install fonts whose use is illegal.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16470 (here the fonts themselves are pirated)

Both packages have many votes. Even though it might not be an infringement from our part to offer the PKGBUILDs, it still does not look very good for Arch Linux to be encouraging the use of illegal software (note that font is also software).

Unless someone provides me with good arguments against it, I will delete the above two packages during the next few days.

Best, F

It's the choice of the user whether they want to install the package and violate the license. It's been help up all over that sites that host user-uploaded content aren't responsible for the legality of the content uploaded, so long as they comply with any DMCA takedown requests. I'd wait for one of those before deleting any of these.