[Bug 2483] Review request: msttcore-fonts - TrueType core fonts for the web

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2483

--- Comment #10 from Rob Janes <janes.rob at gmail.com> 2012-09-18 09:22:35 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> I'll also point out that Fedora ships metrically compatible substitutes for
> Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New: the Liberation fonts. Liberation Serif
> is a substitute for Times New Roman, Liberation Sans for Arial and Liberation
> Mono for Courier New.

Display a notice?  here's the notice the ubuntu package displays:

LIBERATION FONTS
----------------

The package fonts-liberation contains free variants of the Times,
Arial and Courier fonts. We recommend you use that instead unless you
specifically need one of the other fonts from this package.

The changelog for the ubuntu package notes that this message was meant to be
emphasized in some sense.

There's 7 other fonts in the package besides those three, including wingdings. 
I mean, how can we ever get along without wingdings.

There's also

 Croscore fonts: Arimo (sans), Cousine (monospace), and Tinos (serif) 

Which is a redo of liberation fonts under an apache license, not a gpl license.

The Microsoft European Union update EUupdate.EXE came out in 2006, and redhat
came out with liberation in 2007, so I'm not sure the liberation fonts have the
updated handling of those funny european accents.

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