olive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the interpretation is that the DFSG applies to the fonts > also. Indeed in this case, you cannot regenerate the same pdf file > with tools from main. Quite often I agree with you that the DFSG are > interpreted too strictly and does not refer the original view of > Debian. But in this situation, I cannot see how a document which is > not regenerable from entirely free stuff could be considered free.
I agree. > By the way is it that difficult to the package maintener to regenerate > the document using free fonts? (the script texi2dvi do that nearly > magically without having worrying about LaTeX rerun, makeindex, etc...) For a texinfo file, it's of course easy. For many LaTeX package documentation files, often created from dtx files, it is *that* difficult, as I already explained in this thread. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
