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Re: Nonfree fonts in xsrc



Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes:

>> 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.

While I see your point, I find non-free binary blobs of firmware to be
1000x more important an issue than fonts.

I do not think there is much appetite for a total purge of firmware.

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