On May 6, 2011 at 7:20PM +0900, henrich (at debian.or.jp) wrote: >> However, this Debian packaging license is GPL-3. It is problematic >> if the upstream part is modified with packaging. > > Most of the case, if modifies would be needed to ttf-takao, takao > upstream - also package maintainer of this - would deal with it by > changing font file itself. So, the situation you mention is rare. > > And if we have to modify font file with packaging, we just choose > another license for that file, don't we? So, the severity of this bug is currently `wishlist'. If you forget to choose another license, this bug will be `serious'. Anyway, I recommend that Debian packaging license be compatible with upstream, even if upstream source is not yet modified. Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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