Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

olive.lin@versateladsl.be wrote:

>> I can't see anything in the DFSG which would forbid it, so it looks
>> free to me. With the note that the source files may need to be modified
>> to allow being processed with the free fonts present in Debian, but this
>> would not be a freeness issue.

>I think that the interpretation is that the DFSG applies to the fonts 
>also.
It applies to the font, but not to the rendered document. The characters
in the document are not subject to copyright.

>By the way is it that difficult to the package maintener to regenerate 
>the document using free fonts? (the script texi2dvi do that nearly 
Yes. What about actually reading what the maintainer wrote?

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ciao,
Marco