Norbert Preining wrote:
When we have time, we put manual source code in the public svn repos at one of our company servers which are mirrored by taco; one problem is that i often use commercial fonts (ones i recently had to use in projects) in order to get away from this 'yet another tex look'. Sometimes i can define fallbacks but not always. The same is true for some graphics (one reason for not putting all mp code i write online is that i don't want them to be ripped off simply because they are part of the context look and feel); this means that the all-source-available principle cannot be met and therefore they will not be redistributed which is a pitty for users.... if I, too, don't agree about the documentation stuff. In fact I agree half-way: I want to have the source code, even if some commercial fonts are missing etc and would still consider this DFSG free. In fact I started a discussion about it some time ago, since I believe it is better to have (as an example): fontinstallationguide.tex fontinstallationguide.pdf where the pdf contains some commercial fonts. The user still has the source code, can do anything with it, AND has a beautiful/readable/whatever document for printing. I am often missing some "common sense" in these discussion, but OTOH I understand that on the larger scale of a whole distribution this is something a bit more complicated.
I hope that you manage to get that discussions rolling, since it's a pitty that manuals are that restricted. I also wonder if it means that 'a source should be processable'. Btw, what is the source of an html page (or makes the fact that it's readable it a source); i'm pretty sure that much in the open source domain contains generated docs with the real source missing (say an xml file and an xslt script)
Hans
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