Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:Also, everything in orig.tar.gz must be DFSG free.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
Err, of course. That's why I ask. Does debian-legal think that a document with a DFSG-free license and with sources available except for the embedded fonts is DFSG-free or not?
If the pdf includes non-free font implementations, then this is just plain non-free (and perhaps non-distributable if the source is GPL). If it just includes a reference by name to a non-free font, it's free, but useless to Debian.
I don't want to hear technical comments whether it is desirable or doable to rebuild the documentation, but whether it is legally possible to distribute such documents.
Legally possible: yes. Useful to Debian: no. I'd say to put it in non-free or contrib even if it technically doesn't violate the DFSG.
-- Mark Rafn dagon@dagon.net <http://www.dagon.net/>