* Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote: > You forgot one other thing. We'll also have to strip **ALL** > **FONTS** from Debian, since fonts come in binary form, and we don't > have anything approaching the "preferred form for modification" for > fonts. In particular, the Truetype Bitstream Vera fonts which were so > generously donated by Vera was generated not only using propietary > source files, but also using propietary non-free programs. Well, now, I'm not entirely convinced of this. Could a similar argument not be used on JPEG's or PNG's? Do we have *some* reasonable way to modify these fonts? It's been a long time, but I did hack on some fonts a long time ago and while it wasn't the most fun thing I could have sworn there was a free program available to do it.. Stephen
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