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From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
Subject: Re: ports/41716: x11-fonts/webfonts cannot be fetched anymore
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The following reply was made to PR ports/41716; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, kkonstat@daemon.gr
Subject: Re: ports/41716: x11-fonts/webfonts cannot be fetched anymore
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:18:54 +0000

 On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Christian Brueffer wrote:
 >  There are many mirrors of this distfile:
 >  
 >  http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=ftp&cs=iso-8859-1&ftype=4&q=andale32.exe
 >  
 >  If there are legal issues with automatically fetching from one of these
 >  mirrors, the Makefile could be changed in a way, that requires the
 >  user who wants to build this port to fetch the distfile himself.
 >  
 >  audio/linux-realplayer does exactly this.
 >  
 
 I admit that audio/linux-realplayer gives detailed instructions
 how to download the distfile.
 I don't if there are legal issues with that in the case of this port.
 
 - Christian
 
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