On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Ben Armstrong wrote: > It does look good. However, the inclusion of Apple fonts in Squeak (which > are not DFSG-free) has long been a sore spot so far as including Squeak in > Debian is concerned. It puts squeak squarely in non-free. As such, it > cannot be included in Debian Jr. even if it is packaged. Interesting point. I decided to build med-*-contrib meta packages if there is some software in contrib or non-free which is interesting for Debian-Med. But you are right - it is no offcial Debian and thus it can't be offical Debian-{Junior,Med,Edu}.
> I thought, from my review of Squeak mailing list archives, that some time > ago the Squeak developers agreed in principle that the Apple fonts should be > replaced with free alternatives. I don't know if any progress has been made > on this front. Would you like to ask? While I would like to ask I really do not have the time for further investigation into this topic but I would really love if somebody could care about it. On the other hands if we would have packages in non-free now we could easily move it to main if fonts would be replaced. People could have a look at it how cute this program is and efforts to make it really free could increase. Kind regards Andreas.