[Assist] ec fonts

[Ramana Kumar]

I repeat this question one more time: Why does Parabola remove ec fonts
from its version of TexLive, and how is it being done exactly?
(So I can figure out how to patch them back in.)
There is no freedom-related reason for removing them. (See
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ecfonts.)

On 11 May 2015 at 15:19, Ramana Kumar <ramana at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> 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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