On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:30:14PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > * Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>: > > > * Package name : ttf-angular > > How many font packages are still to come? I think a small collection of > high quality fonts is enough to have. > > I have installed a huge number of more or less freely available TrueType > fonts which I hope never will be part of the Debian archives. I think we should ship as many DFSG-free fonts as we can responsibly maintain. This will provide us with either: * A concrete refutation of the common assertion that good fonts are so hard to make that no will ever dare license them freely; or * An exhibit to the community of areas where we need free alternatives to proprietary fonts. Personally, I remain unconvinced that fonts a problem space so incredibly unique that intermixing them with free licensing renders them infeasible. I also think contrived licenses like that on Bitstream Vera are a bad precdent that should not be followed. You can read more about this issue in the archives An LPGL-like license tailored to fonts (e.g., a copyleft, but you can use the font anywhere) would be a good idea, I suspect, and permit a sustainable free font community to develop. Any followup on licensing issues should probably be directed to debian-legal. -- G. Branden Robinson | To Republicans, limited government Debian GNU/Linux | means not assisting people they branden@debian.org | would sooner see shoveled into mass http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | graves. -- Kenneth R. Kahn
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