[Pkg-fonts-devel] The 0-th (very) rough (and incomplete) draft of a Font Policy

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Tue Apr 12 07:20:34 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Changwoo Ryu <cwryu at debian.org> wrote:

> IMO source code of something is not its historically original format,

Sure.

> but a preferred form of modification, as the GPL defined. TTF/OTF data
> can be considered as source codes in this sense.

Right, except when there are clear signs that the authors prefer to
edit some other format than the binary font files, then I think it is
clear that we need to ship that other format to be DFSG-compliant.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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