[aur-general] New PKGBUILD for consideration "ttf-apple"

Limao Luo luolimao at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 00:06:56 EST 2013


On 01/19/2013 11:27 PM, Kirill Churin wrote:
> No, it is not. It's illegal to redistribute Apple fonts, just like
> Microsoft fonts. I'm the maintainer of the ttf-ms-win8 and did some
> research on that. AUR package should not contain download links for such
> fonts, take a look how I did it for my package.
>
> This package source links:
> http://ompldr.org/vNXFlNA — illegal
> http://invisible-**files.googlecode.com/files/**ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz<http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz>
>> illegal
> https://macbuntu.svn.**sourceforge.net/svnroot/**macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts<https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts>
>> illegal
>
> On the other way, the approach of
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tt/ttf-mac-fonts/PKGBUILD and
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tt/ttf-mac/PKGBUILD is good. No sources
> in AUR.
>
> So one definetely should merge and rework them to provide great Apple fonts
> package, but I don't have Mac and cannon do it myself.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Martín Cigorraga <msx at archlinux.us> wrote:
>
>> So one can easily pirate Apple fonts now? Nicely done!
>>
>>> --
>>> Kirill Churin
>>> Jabber: reflexing at reflexing.ru
>>>
>>
>> If this is a legal download I'm utmost interested in installing and trying
>> this package.
>>
>
>
Wait, what? Direct links are illegal, but an svn checkout to the same 
Macbuntu repo is legal? Am I missing something?


More information about the aur-general mailing list