Christian Perrier wrote: >> We do not suggest gcc and other tools in each package that written in C, >> so I think fontforge should not be suggested too. > > Nor do I. OK, I will adjust the Suggests accordingly then. All these suggestions will be moved to the open font design toolkit metapackage. The idea is to make the Debian environment a friendly place for designers. A one click (one command) install of the whole font design toolkit is a good step in that direction. >>>>>> * The OFL file doesn't need to be installed >>>>> Why? >>>> The OFL is quoted in the copyright file, IMO we don't need 2 copies of >>>> the OFL in the package. >>> OK, that makes sense. But we will need to make many changes to various >>> existing packages which reference OFL.txt >> Alternatively if OFL is used by many packages it can be added to >> base-files in directory /usr/share/common-licenses, so it need not to be >> included in debian/copyright. > > > Yep. It should, as soon as Debian advice abou tit freeness is confirmed The FTP-masters have already made a decision in favor of the license. And I had good discussions with MJ Ray and Don Armstrong about the freeness of the OFL 1.1 after MJ's talk about the work of debian-legal: (https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/events/107.en.html) MJ was happy with the clarifications of intent expressed in the current version: substitution systems are outside the scope of the license and adding debian packaging is not branching the font. (So there is no need to do a Debian-specific branch for the fonts). Don had no other objections than the name protection compromise (and its potentially functional aspect) which is crucial for font designers and fits with DFSG #4. We agreed that theoretically it would be ideal not to have this but without it almost no designer will make the step to release their creation under a DFSG-recognized font-specific license. I will reply in a few days to the earlier list thread comparing the OFL with the GPL / GPL + exception. -- Nicolas Spalinger http://scripts.sil.org http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/ https://launchpad.net/people/fonts
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