Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 2., K, 21:14):
> We have a package of font-awesome, currently at version 4.7.0. > > It's a very simple package, installing the files generated by upstream > rather than trying to rebuild them. > > As of version 5, the tools used to build the generated files are not > free: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902981 > https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/13467 > > Is this a problem for us under the FSDG? Quoting the FSDG [0]: > > ------ > “Information for practical use” includes software, documentation, fonts, > and other data that has direct functional applications. It does not > include artistic works that have an aesthetic (rather than functional) > purpose, or statements of opinion or judgment. > > All information for practical use in a free distribution must be > available in source form. (“Source” means the form of the information > that is preferred for making changes to it.) > ------ > > Since we don't have the form of the fonts that is preferred for making > changes to them, my interpretation is that we can't include font-awesome > version 5. > > What do you think? > > As far as I can see this is really a problem. It seems to me that Debian also came to that conclusion. > [0] > https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html >
