On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:55:48 +0100 Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote: >If it is GPL-2+ it is not a problem but a few fonts file are released >under GPL-2 only... It is quite a mess.
Yes... The best way to solve it is re-license those snippets to more permissive license like BSD-3-clause or MIT by Adobe, but it costs for them. >> And, how can I think about fontforge copies snippet to generate those >> *.pfb files? > >Could you modify comment on this code to add some fontforge comment ? >Like for instance "inserted by fontforge (debian someversion)". I >could teach lintian to check if font are regenerated. >What do you think? Probably I can, but is it necessary? Re-licensed to Apache-2.0 code is exactly same as previous proprietary one, no changes. Just treat it as DFSG-free code is enough, isn't it? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
