Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> wrote:

> I think that the interpretation is that the DFSG applies to the fonts
> also. Indeed in this case, you cannot regenerate the same pdf file
> with tools from main. Quite often I agree with you that the DFSG are
> interpreted too strictly and does not refer the original view of
> Debian. But in this situation, I cannot see how a document which is
> not regenerable from entirely free stuff could be considered free.

I agree.

> By the way is it that difficult to the package maintener to regenerate
> the document using free fonts? (the script texi2dvi do that nearly
> magically without having worrying about LaTeX rerun, makeindex, etc...)

For a texinfo file, it's of course easy.  For many LaTeX package
documentation files, often created from dtx files, it is *that*
difficult, as I already explained in this thread.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)