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Jasper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:33 pm

Extract and place in:

/usr/share/fonts

https://www.mediafire.com/file/osq2hdfdhoijjdl/microsoft.tar.gz/file

If you are using LibreOffice then place them in:

/opt/libreoffice<your existing build number>/share/fonts/truetype

Link doesn't work for me....

https://www.mediafire.com/file/osq2hdfd ... ar.gz/file

THANKS

(downloaded)

Um, are these fonts open source? Do you have the right to share them?

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Flash wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:42 pm

Um, are these fonts open source?

Apparently not

Jasper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 5:40 am

These are "Open Source"

Says who?

the script is hosted on Sourceforge

So what? Just because some guys make a package of Microsoft's proprietary fonts and boldly add a GPL license to their work doesn't make these fonts Open Source.

Don't get me wrong: I very much would love to see that Microsoft puts these fonts into the public domain, but so far I haven't found a single official statement or license issued by Microsoft that would support this. If there is one I would like to see it.

To be sure I downloaded the package (using ally's MediaFire link ) and searched for copyright notices embedded in the TTF fonts. Consistently found something like this:

Calibri: 2005Version 1.02
Calibri is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
You may use this font as permitted by the EULA for the product in which this font is included to display and print content. You may only (i) embed this font in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions included in this font; and (ii) temporarily download this font to a printer or other output device

Doesn't look Open Source to me.

Compare this with notices included in DejaVu fonts:

Fonts are (c) Bitstream (see below). DejaVu changes are in public domain. Glyphs imported from Arev fonts are (c) Tavmjung Bah (see below)
Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright
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Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bitstream Vera is
a trademark of Bitstream, Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of the fonts accompanying this license ("Fonts") and associated
documentation files (the "Font Software"), to reproduce and distribute the
Font Software, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, merge,
publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Font Software, and to permit
persons to whom the Font Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
following conditions:
The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice shall
be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software typefaces.
The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in particular
the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be modified and
additional glyphs or characters may be added to the Fonts, only if the fonts
are renamed to names not containing either the words "Bitstream" or the word
"Vera".

What's your point?

The point is that this forum, or rather @rockedge, could be held liable for proprietary stuff posted on his website, this forum. Just as if you posted a copyrighted movie on YouTube.

microsoft released its core fonts for free use back in 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

https://github.com/pushcx/corefonts

the wikipedia and github link do some explaining about how these can still be allowed to be available.

the github link has the original packages as issued by microsoft, read the readme.md for a refresher for what you can read in the wikipedia page.