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Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge



Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> You forgot one other thing.  We'll also have to strip **ALL**
> **FONTS** from Debian,

Not all of them, we have quite a few METAFONT programs.

> The debian installer will also need to be rewritten to support
> obtaining fonts from non-free sources as well, and we will need to
> move xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-scalable, to
> non-free.

Hand-tuned bitmap fonts are fine because the bitmaps are the preferred
form of modification.  Vector fonts are a different story, and so a
pre-rendered bitmap fonts.

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