Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Apr 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote: >> Most of the work on tetex-doc-nonfree was done before the GR on GFDL. At >> that time, it seemed pretty clear that any GFDL licensed document would >> have to go to non-free. Most of the discussion is in #345604. After the >> unexpected outcome of the GR, I am not sure if we should jump to >> conclusions already and move the files back. > > Aehhe.. do you expect a new GR???
If anything, a decision by the ftpmasters that they cannot guarantee the requirements in the "Copying in quantity" clause or the anti-DRM clause on Debian machines. >> > > . Why is fontinstallationguide in tetex-doc-nonfree? In TeX live there >> > > is a source code which is GFDL/Debian [1]. Maybe it is not the >> > > exact source code? Then it would be better to compile this source code >> > > and include the output, or? >> >> Here we have the additional problem that the PDF uses non-free fonts. > > Hmmm, now it is getting interesting. Do we consider FREE also the LAYOUT > of a document???? > > Ie it is necessary to recreate the *VERY SAME DOCUMENT*, even from the > layouts point of view, on any system? > > I would say no, because everyone can reUSE the text in any way, and he > can recreate the same layout by buying fonts, but it is not necessary to > reuse the text, change the layout etc. > > So this is no contradiction for me to DFSG. I've brought this up on -legal a couple of weeks ago (because of the fontinst documentation), and the bottom line is: If we have the fonts and they are free, we can distribute the document as-is. If we don't have them, it's just the same as if a program ships as C-source plus one precompiled binary blob (except that in this case we don't even have the isolated binary blob, just the resulting compiled "binary"). And such a program would for sure be non-free. What we can always do, of course, is recreate the document from the sources with an appropriate free font; but as long as it's distributable and we do have tetex/texlive-doc-nonfree, anyway, I'd just put it in there. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
