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%20has%20one%20added%20requirement:%20if%20you%20run%20a%20modified%20program%20on%20a%20server%20and%20let%20other%20users%20communicate%20with%20it%20there,%20your%20server%20must%20also%20allow%20them%20to%20download%20the%20source%20code%20corresponding%20to%20the%20modified%20version%20running%20there.
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