Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?
* Frank Küster:
> I'm wondering whether a document that's licensed under a DFSG-free
> license, with TeX/sgml/whatever sources available and all, may use
> non-free fonts. For example, the LaTeX source would contain
>
> \usepackage{lucidabr}
>
> and you'd be able to create the document from that source only if you
> have either the commercial or otherwise non-free font installed, or you
> replace/remove that line.
The resulting PDF would still be non-free: If it were free, I would be
allowed to reconstruct the embedded Type 1 fonts and use them freely
(according to DFSG-compliant license terms), which is clearly not the
case.
Therefore, you have to rebuild the documentation anyway, using free
fonts.
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