Re: add freefonts!

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Stefan Rieken wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One thing that I _did_ found "enhanced" about my old Debian was the
> > FreeFont collection; a set of free type1 fonts.
> 
> A couple of points:
> 
> (*)	They aren't all free.

Many of them are prohibited to distribution through commercail
channels.  That means no CD.

> (*)	The bonehead who packaged them didn't have the foresight to include
> 	the font metrics. We really want to ship these if possible ( since
> 	it would make the fonts work with most wordprocessing apps )
> 

I think one of us built an RPM of them but it was the original tgz who
was broken.

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			Jean Francois Martinez

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