Quoting Paul Wise (2021-10-02 04:31:07) > The license is a legal instrument that is only enforced in the courts, > but the embedding/printing/etc bits are a technical instrument that is > often enforced by software, kind of like DRM but easier to defeat if > you know how, and impossible to defeat if you don't know how. So when > the embedding/printing/etc bits are inconsistent with the license, I > think it is appropriate to discuss disabling those bits with the > upstream authors of the font, so that users who don't know how to > defeat those bits can use the fonts in the ways that they are legally > allowed to and want to, in places that do enforce the > embedding/printing/etc bits. I find the above text more informative than the current one emitted by lintian-info. @paul: Please consider filing a bugreport against lintian to improve its descriptive text :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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