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Re: Nonfree fonts in xsrc



>> Debian has decided not to distribute the following fonts due to them
>> not meeting their Free Software Guidelines:
> This is not really relevant to use at all.

Neither are most aspects of what makes open source open source.

> It's also not really that unusual for fonts (or art in general) to
> mandate the no-deriviatives clause.

So?  It's not that unusual for software to mandate
no-reverse-engineering, either.  Each is nevertheless inappropriate for
a (supposedly-)open-source project.

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