Description of Problem: As far as i can tell some fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1 are simply Type1 convertions of well known MS core fonts(from both Microsoft and Monotype foundries). Their presence(licensing) should be clarified. (As a side note its hard to justify non-inclusion of TrueType MS Web Core Fonts in this case) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -qf ariab___.pfb.gz yields XFree86-4.1.0-3 How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RedHat 7.1(or 7.2) 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Red Hat was recently made aware of the ulT1mo font collection allegedly being based upon copyrighted fonts. At the request of the copyright holder, these fonts have been removed from all releases of Red Hat Linux without disputing the validity of the alleged copyright holders claims. The various packages which previously contained these fonts, have been updated to remove them, and new updated packages, and ISO images have been made available for download from the Red Hat ftpsite, and via up2date et al. Updating to the latest software will remove these copyrighted fonts from your system. If you know of some location on the ftpsite or elsewhere which for some reason still contains these fonts, please report it to us so that we can have the files removed immediately. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.
An additional note I'd like to comment on: > (As a side note its hard to justify non-inclusion of TrueType MS Web > Core Fonts in this case) The inclusion of fonts which should not be included, is in no way whatsoever justification for adding more fonts which should not be included. I want to make it very clear, that the Microsoft web fonts, core fonts, etc. or any other copyrighted fonts which are not legally redistributable will not become part of Red Hat Linux. The only fonts which will be included in Red Hat Linux are fonts which come with XFree86 upstream sources, or external fonts which are freely redistributable, and are under a license which is acceptable to Red Hat for inclusion in the distribution. We also will not include fonts in the distribution in which we have any reason to believe the font author does not have the right to redistribute or to claims copyright of.