[arch-general] Packages with non free licenses

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

Is Archlinux reconsidering license issues with the binary packages
residing at its repos?
It certainly seems so...

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-December/003780.html
http://archlinux.org/news/374/

I really think this is a change for the better.

I have been meaning to ask, AFAIK besides the codecs package the same
license have ttf-ms-fonts. Is there any change to see them in
unsupported too?
IMO the fonts are a more complex issue than the codecs one, since most
users have them installed. Theres already an AUR entry for them in
unsupported
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=5418

Personally i dont know if they can be replaced by other sets of fonts
but taking advantage of the opportunity i thought id bring this to the
devs attention.

Greg