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On Tuesday 27 April 2010 07:45:23 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 26 Apr 2010, at 20:10, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > 2010/4/26 <fajfusio@××.pl>: |
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> >> Hello |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm looking for the following fonts. |
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> >> Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the |
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> >> following |
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> >> fonts. |
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> > Some from corefonts, others are probably copyrighted by microsoft. |
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> Corefonts themselves are copyrighted by Microsoft. Microsoft simply |
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> chose to release them at no charge. |
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Once, long long ago, Microsoft released the 4 core fonts - Arial, Verdana, and |
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two out of the serif fonts Courier, Times New Roman and Georgia - as free to |
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use, free to redistribute. The intent seems to have been to allow developers |
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to ship these fonts with their apps just in case the user didn't already have |
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them. |
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That license has since changed, but the original license is still valid for |
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anyone that received it. So those fonts are still freely available from anyone |
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that chooses to mirror them. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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