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

2013-01-20 Thread archlinux
Ok, thanks for the feedback, and it's what I assumed would be the case and my reason for asking. I did wonder why there were packages in the AUR that linked to content without, apparently, having appropriate rights. To confirm that I understand this correctly: On 20/01/13 08:45, Xyne wrote: Th

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

2013-01-20 Thread Kirill Churin
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Xyne wrote: > Kirill Churin wrote: > > >No, it is not. It's illegal to redistribute Apple fonts, just like > >Microsoft fonts. > > The PKGBUILD does not contain the fonts so it is not distribution. The > fonts > are downloaded directly by the user when the package

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

2013-01-20 Thread Xyne
Kirill Churin wrote: >No, it is not. It's illegal to redistribute Apple fonts, just like >Microsoft fonts. The PKGBUILD does not contain the fonts so it is not distribution. The fonts are downloaded directly by the user when the package is built. Unless the source of those files is somehow illega

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

2013-01-19 Thread Kirill Churin
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Limao Luo wrote: > >> Wait, what? Direct links are illegal, but an svn checkout to the same >> Macbuntu repo is legal? Am I missing something? >> > Of course not! Just overlooked it. :) -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflex...@reflexing.ru

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

2013-01-19 Thread Limao Luo
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 packa

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

2013-01-19 Thread Kirill Churin
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.o

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

2013-01-19 Thread Martín Cigorraga
So one can easily pirate Apple fonts now? Nicely done! > > -- > Kirill Churin > Jabber: reflex...@reflexing.ru > If this is a legal download I'm utmost interested in installing and trying this package.

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

2013-01-18 Thread Kirill Churin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:38 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some new ones. > There are several packages of apple fonts on the AUR but I had issues with > some of the fonts not being recognised by LibreOffice (due to it seemingly > being unable

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

2013-01-17 Thread Daniel Wallace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 archli...@jelmail.com wrote: >On 17/01/13 16:01, Daniel Wallace wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> archli...@jelmail.com wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some ne

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

2013-01-17 Thread archlinux
On 17/01/13 16:01, Daniel Wallace wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 archli...@jelmail.com wrote: Hello, I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some new ones. There are several packages of apple fonts on the AUR but I had issues with some of the fonts

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

2013-01-17 Thread Daniel Wallace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 archli...@jelmail.com wrote: >Hello, > >I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some new >ones. There are several packages of apple fonts on the AUR but I had >issues with some of the fonts not being recognised by LibreOffice (du

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

2013-01-17 Thread archlinux
Hello, I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some new ones. There are several packages of apple fonts on the AUR but I had issues with some of the fonts not being recognised by LibreOffice (due to it seemingly being unable to read ttc - truetype font collection - files)