[Assist] ec fonts

Ramana Kumar ramana at member.fsf.org
Mon May 11 06:19:33 BST 2015


One way to avoid it being replaced by the parabola version is to Ignore the
package in your pacman.conf. But, the downside is you need to upgrade it
manually (with -U).

On 11 May 2015 at 00:19, Tom <t4k at email.cz> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> as the ec fonts with a free license appear to be removed in the
> Parabola's texlive-core, I have installed the texlive-core from the
> Arch repositories.
>
> This is done by downloading texlive-core package from the Arch
> repositories [*], which can be then installed by
>
> # pacman -U texlive-core.pkg.tar.xz
>
> [*] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/texlive-core/
>
> However, this solution is not without problems.
>
> The Arch website states as the license of this package GPL, but as
> found some parts are not under GPL e.g. the ec fonts are distributed
> with their own license. Although, in the case of ec fonts the license
> is still free, there is not guarantee that it will be so in other
> cases.
>
> Secondly, When I try to update my system (by pacman -Syu) the
> automatically replaced by the parabola version.
>
> Is there any way to force this particular package not to be changed?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:08:11PM +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote:
> > Indeed! Thanks Tom. So, even the FSF says the ec fonts are free, so
> > why are we removing them? (And how?)
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Tom <t4k at email.cz> wrote:
> > > It seems that the cm-super is already included as part of
> > > texlive-core, but the ec fonts are not part of that package (I'm sorry
> > > for the confusion).
> > >
> > > Instead, it seems, that those files are part of some other package,
> > > which seems to be missing in Parabola. I have found the following
> > > reference to the "ecrm" fonts in the list of files in the
> > > texlive-coreon the Arch website
> > > (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/texlive-core/files/):
> > >
> > > usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/ecrm1000.mf
> > > usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecrm1000.tfm
> > >
> > > I'm quite new here and am not sure, how exactly the packaging works
> > > and which package does provide those fonts then. But it seems to me,
> > > that the ec fonts are be free (see
> > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ecfonts).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:30:01PM +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote:
> > >> Why are the three things, which are all quite difficult, required for
> Parabola,
> > >> when cm-super is already included in Trisquel?
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Michał Masłowski <mtjm at mtjm.eu>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>     > Does anyone have any references/URLs related to this, i.e.
> where/how
> > >>     > to take the next steps?
> > >>
> > >>     See
> > >>     e.g.
> https://wiki.parabola.nu/TeXLive_freedom_verification#MeX_license
> > >>     for details of the license problem.
> > >>
> > >>     > For example, does EC fonts have a homepage? Is the author's
> email
> > >>     > address known?
> > >>
> > >>     Search CTAN, all such info should be there.
> > >>
> > >>     > How are they currently being removed from Parabola's TeXLive
> packages?
> > >>
> > >>     Check mksource in the PKGBUILDs in abslibre.git.
> > >>
> > >>
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