Bug#1109557: RFS: fonts-mikhak/3.4-1 [ITP] -- Mikhak font family
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On Saturday, 26 July 2025 at 10:09, Maytham Alsudany <maytham@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-07-26 at 05:53 +0000, Modaresi Soft Hard wrote:
>
> > Building fonts?!
> > Is it needed really?
>
>
> Yes, fonts need to be regenerated when source is provided.
> https://wiki.debian.org/AutoGeneratedFiles
> An example is fonts-osifont, which excludes[1] the prebuilt .ttf files
> and rebuilds[2] them using fontforge.
>
> > I think all of free softwares should move to AGPL-3+ for more protection.
>
>
> The AGPL is intended for software that operates over the network i.e.
> servers[3]. These are just a few files that are used by dpkg to build
> packages for Debian.
>
> --
> Maytham
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-osifont/-/blob/master/debian/copyright#L5
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-osifont/-/blob/master/debian/rules#L10-11
> [3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html#:~:text=It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there.
Changing .bat files is very hard. Several fonts in Debian is not builded from source. Like fonts-vazirmatn
I Add Uploaders to the control.
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