On Thursday, October 15, 2026 1:50:39 PM Mountain Standard Time Jan Claeys wrote: > On Thu, 2026-10-15 at 10:49 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Saturday, October 10, 2026 10:38:38 AM Mountain Standard Time Jan > > > > Claeys wrote: > > > I don't know all of those packages, but anything that is only > > > documentation I wouldn't worry about removing EOT (and possibly SVG > > > fonts too). > > > > The problem with these EOT fonts in document packages is that they > > are DFSG-non-free because they are not built from source (and these > > packages do not even contain the source). > > What I meant is: “I wouldn’t worry about breaking things by removing > EOT files from documentation”. > > Probably nobody is going to read documentation for The GIMP or similar > on an appliance running embedded Windows, and in most cases (e.g. for > The GIMP) those font files are not really _needed_ to begin with, just > used for a “house style”, so text would still be readable without them.
Gotcha. I misunderstood what you meant. I agree that I don’t forsee any possible breaking with removing the EOT fonts from these packages. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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