Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
>
>> On 05 Mar 2006 12:03:00 +0100 Claus Färber wrote:
>>
>>> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> schrieb/wrote:
>>> > The reason for this is that building (La)TeX documentation
>>> >
>>> > * depends on the right number and order of commands to be
>>> > executed,
>>> > which one has to find by trial and error (it's very rare that
>>> > authors upload Makefiles, since usually they aren't needed much)
>>> >
>>> > * depends on settings in local configuration files, which may
>>> > differ
>>> > from package author to package author and from version to
>>> > version.
>>>
>>> In other words, there is no _complete_ source code for the compiled
>>> version of the documentation, which violates DFSG #2 (even without the
>>> font issue).
>>
>> Well, it seems so...
>
> Sorry, how do you two come to that conclusion? There's on automated
> build system.
Sorry, that should have been: There's *no* automated build system.
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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