On Mar 5, 2006, at 03:06, Marco d'Itri wrote:
The characters in the document are not subject to copyright.
Yes, in the U.S. if all alleged computer programness of the font is
gone and the glyphs are bitmapped or on paper but is that also true
of embedded hinted fonts in PDF? (I thought
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, from the user's standpoint it's not a just comment out the
\usepackage line...
Rather, it's a
1. comment out the \usepackage line
2. fix the whole document so that it adapts to the free fonts
3. check if the result is acceptable, otherwise
Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 5, 2006, at 03:06, Marco d'Itri wrote:
The characters in the document are not subject to copyright.
Yes, in the U.S. if all alleged computer programness of the font is
gone and the glyphs are bitmapped or on paper but is that also true
of
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:30:26 +0100 Frank Küster wrote:
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, from the user's standpoint it's not a just comment out the
\usepackage line...
Rather, it's a
1. comment out the \usepackage line
2. fix the whole document so that it adapts to
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The web page (http://www.portaudio.com/license.html) has the following
additional clauses; which should be included in Debian package to
clarify:
Plain English Interpretation of the License
The following is a plain
I'm just going to note one important point about this whole thing.
This is a main/contrib issue, *not* a main/non-free issue. Everyone
agrees that the documents which use the non-free fonts are themselves free.
The question is whether they depend on the non-free fonts.
Suppose for the sake of
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just going to note one important point about this whole thing.
This is a main/contrib issue, *not* a main/non-free issue. Everyone
agrees that the documents which use the non-free fonts are themselves free.
The question is whether they depend on
(This is in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED].Sorry about
the thread-breakingthought I should reply to this quickly rather than
waiting to get to a better computer.)
Frank Kuester wrote:
Are you sure? Isn't it the same as a program that contains in its
sources a binary blob that's copied
Marco d'Itri wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't see anything in the DFSG which would forbid it, so it looks
free to me. With the note that the source files may need to be modified
to allow being processed with the free fonts present in Debian, but this
would not be a freeness issue.
I
By the way is it that difficult to the package maintener to regenerate
the document using free fonts? (the script texi2dvi do that nearly
magically without having worrying about LaTeX rerun, makeindex, etc...)
For a texinfo file, it's of course easy. For many LaTeX package
documentation
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