Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?
Mark Rafn <dagon@dagon.net> wrote:
>> Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>> Also, everything in orig.tar.gz must be DFSG free.
>
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Err, of course. That's why I ask. Does debian-legal think that a
>> document with a DFSG-free license and with sources available except for
>> the embedded fonts is DFSG-free or not?
>
> If the pdf includes non-free font implementations, then this is just
> plain non-free (and perhaps non-distributable if the source is GPL).
The source will be LPPL in most cases, no problem here.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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