On 2020-01-30 01:33:09, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:45 PM Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>
>> The URL above also has a "source" directory which ships "FontLab 6"
>> files (VFC and VFJ):
>>
>> https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/Font-Formats/
>>
>> I am not sure those can be edited with free software, but I am
>> wondering if the TTF is sufficient to fulfill DFSG requirements.
>
> Debian has no requirements that fonts be editable with free tools.
> Debian has no requirements that all autogenerated files in Debian must
> be built from source at debian/rules build time. Our only requirement
> (which is ftp-master policy) is that it is possible to build from
> source using only tools in main.
Well that's the real trick isn't it. In this case, could you regenerate
(say) the TTF ("compiled" file) from the VFC file (source file)? I doubt
that would be the case here....
> Many packages in Debian violate the first two items but probably do
> match the Debian requirement, unfortunately we don't have a standard
> way to verify that.
>
> Some other mails of mine on this topic:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/78ab1a8a4d759b8e187b04f291bfb732c6f82b57.ca...@debian.org
> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/caktje6e8+8uqmzvrohdzlffq-ucoeatqn2wiz-zbrwcqnk0...@mail.gmail.com
.. yet I see from that second post that "Debian's standards are somewhat
lower, we require source be available and DFSG-freely licensed. In
addition the ftp-master policy (not sure about the rest of Debian) has a
policy that packages be buildable (but not necessarily built) using
tools only in main."
hum.
a.
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