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Author might not want to distribute arial.ttf for reasons of copyright violation.



What can I say, I live on the edge.


He isn't distributing the font, is he? Rendered representations of fonts are explicitly permitted by US copyright law under all circumstances as far as I'm aware.


He is, actually. Download the source.


Ah, I see, I didn't realize he was including it with the source distribution. That might ruffle some feathers.




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