[Trisquel-users] Are Adobe's new fonts violating free software?

[tegskywalker]

In the past few months, Adobe released Source Sans Pro and Source Code Pro  
for free under the free software compatible and copyleft SIL Open Font  
License 1.1 and are touting it as such. Source code is there and they  
encourage people to fork it, contribute back, and help improve it as part of  
a community.

The problem is while the fonts and the source code are under that free  
software license, they cannot be built with anything besides Adobe's  
proprietary font building tools. If Debian or Ubuntu were to include these  
fonts, they would have to fall into the contrib/non-free or multiverse  
repositories. Yikes.

I am basing this off of the  
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665334 and  
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683774 bug reports for  
Debian.

Is Adobe trying to give the perception that they are fully compliant to the  
license but only to a point where it benefits them? They think they are being  
all "hey man its open source!" by releasing the source code and hoping that  
you become dependent on Adobe's tools.