[Assist] ec fonts

[Ramana Kumar]

André, I saw you were about to make progress on this, but then stopped. Did
Michał put you off? Please don't delay any longer. It's a simple issue, and
is disrupting work for many of us.

On 18 March 2016 at 14:07, Jorge Araya Navarro <elcorreo at deshackra.com>
wrote:

> It really sucks if you ask me! Sandly it was never clear to me how was
> people supposed to switch to
> something like Xelatex in software compilation and packaging that ran
> latex compilations as one of
> their steps.
>
> El lunes 14 de marzo del 2016 a las 1925 horas, Ramana Kumar escribió:
>
> > So, is there still no progress on this issue? I am going back to the
> > standard Arch Linux texlive package once again...
> >
> > On 16 November 2015 at 08:45, André Silva <emulatorman at riseup.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/14/2015 03:08 AM, Michał Masłowski wrote:
> >> >>>> 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.)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ok, i'll fix it then
> >> >
> >> > Make sure the package complies with the license, it didn't before it
> was
> >> > removed.  (This is a problem of Arch packaging, not upstream.)
> >> >
> >> > The other problem is that it includes code from otherwise nonfree
> fonts
> >> > and we don't know if the author had permission to use them under a
> >> > different license.
> >>
> >> license problems [0] are in the latest version of Arch's texlive-core
> >> tarball yet, therefore we should do the three things that you mentioned
> >> [1] to solve this issue.
> >>
> >> [0]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/TeXLive_freedom_verification#MeX_license
> >> [1]:https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/assist/2015-April/000439.html
> >>
> >>
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