Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm just going to note one important point about this whole thing.
>
> This is a main/contrib issue, *not* a main/non-free issue. Everyone
> agrees that the documents which use the non-free fonts are themselves free.
> The question is whether they "depend on" the non-free fonts.
Are you sure? Isn't it the same as a program that contains in its
sources a binary blob that's copied as-is to the executable, and the
binary blob is non-free? Just that here the "binary blob", i.e. the
embedded fonts, is not even in the sources?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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