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Re: Nonfree fonts in xsrc
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 08:37:47AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 09:59:36AM +0000, nia wrote:
> >> 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. It's also not really that
> > unusual for fonts (or art in general) to mandate the no-deriviatives
> > clause.
>
> Agreed. We also don't have strict free-license-only rule for base. As
> a big example we have a lot of device firmware.
>
> While it could be a fair question as to whether any particular bits
> should be removed, I don't think it should strictly be about license, at
> least for things where verbatim copying and use are fine, and we don't
> have examples of angst from people wanting to make changes.
The device firmware isn't in "external/mit".
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