Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 11th Mar 2005 01:32 UTC
Today we feature a mini-interview with Chris Schlaeger of SuSE and Novell. Chris answers some questions about SuSE 9.3.
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Microsoft's "Core Fonts for the Web" cannot be shipped because they are non-free (i.e. non-distributable freeware). Microsoft does not offer commercial licenses to Linux vendors for distribution. See here:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/eula.htm
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/faq8.htm
All the other Microsoft fonts (from Windows, Office etc.) cannot be shipped either because they are not even freeware.
The "Core Fonts for the Web" can be downloaded and installed automatically in three different ways:
1. Use FontOOo from within OOo, it downloads the fonts into a subdirectory of your home folder from where only OOo can use them.
2. User yast online update, it downloads the fonts and installs them into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype from where all apps can use them.
3. Get the adopted spec file from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net and build your custom rpm, which will work on other systems as well without downloading them again.