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On Saturday, 26 July 2025 at 10:09, Maytham Alsudany <mayt...@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.
