[arch-general] Packages with non free licenses

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:32 +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
<snip>
> - You may only redistribute the fonts in their original form (.exe or
> .sit.hqx) and with their original file name from your Web site or
> intranet site.
<snip>
> As far as i can tell after reading the above, Archlinux's way of
> distributing these fonts doesnt break the Microsoft EULA besides the not
> providing a copy of the license point.

Actually according to your message, it does break the EULA since the
files should be distributed in original .exe form then extracted on a
user's system which isn't what archlinux does. The archlinux package
already repackages the fonts.
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