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



On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:25:24 +0100 Frank Küster wrote:

> Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote:
> 
> > Scripsit Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> >
> >>>> How do you fix errors in the document?
> >
> >> By waiting for upstream to release a new version.
> >
> > Even though _you_ may not want to take the time to fix errors, it is
> > essential for freedom that _the user_ has the tools he needs to fix
> > errors if he so desires.
> 
> He has.  Just comment out the \usepackage line that changes the font,
> and do the correction.  This is really not a freedom issue.

If it's just so easy to make the document rebuildable with free fonts,
why don't you do that once and for all?
Fixing source in order to make it actually rebuildable with the declared
Build-Depends should not be left to the users...

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