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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] The 0-th (very) rough (and incomplete) draft of a Font Policy



Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg@fifthhorseman.net):
> On 04/12/2011 12:40 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > In short, I'm OK with considering *.ttf files as "source" files when
> > nothing else is available.
> 
> I think i'm in agreement with Christian here, though i would phrase it
> differently:
> 
> I'm OK with considering *.ttf files as "source" files when no other
> preferred form for modification exists.
> 
> That is, if the font maker upstream uses something else to generate the
> .ttf (or .otf, etc) files, then the .ttf is *not* sufficient to satisfy
> the DFSG.
> 
> But when upstream just modifies and publishes .ttfs directly, there's no
> reason for debian to demand another format.

Exactly what I meant. It's good to have native speakers around..:-)


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