hi Charles, I am dealing with upstream fonts author and upstream author to try to fix this. For pointers font, author should be ok to relicense. For shapes and circles, I don't think so.
So either upstream author can use other fonts, or I should package those independently in non-free and put them in Suggests, as those fonts are not mandatory for the software. Fonts are configurable, and "basic" usage does not require at all those fonts. I will let you know For modern computer, I am currently packaging it with the Font team support. Olivier Le 8/1/11 9:43 AM, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:11:07AM +0200, Olivier Sallou a écrit : >> Where did you see that other fonts do not allow modification? >> I see no such mention in text files. > Hi Olivier, > > this is exactly the problem: if it is not mentionned, it may not be allowed. > In particular for fonts, I think that the doubt is strong, and I guess that > the > FTP team will object similarly. The best would be to ask for a clarification > to the copyright holders (and ask them if they want to relicense them under > DFSG-free terms, if we are lucky, they might say yes). > > Have a nice day, > -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (pgp.mit.edu) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
