On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Hideki Yamane <henr...@debian.or.jp> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:55:48 +0100 > Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote: >>If it is GPL-2+ it is not a problem but a few fonts file are released >>under GPL-2 only... It is quite a mess. > > Yes... The best way to solve it is re-license those snippets to more > permissive license like BSD-3-clause or MIT by Adobe, but it costs for > them.
Yes MIT will be best > >>> And, how can I think about fontforge copies snippet to generate those >>> *.pfb files? >> >>Could you modify comment on this code to add some fontforge comment ? >>Like for instance "inserted by fontforge (debian someversion)". I >>could teach lintian to check if font are regenerated. >>What do you think? > > Probably I can, but is it necessary? Re-licensed to Apache-2.0 code is > exactly same as previous proprietary one, no changes. Just treat it as > DFSG-free code is enough, isn't it? No, it will help me on the lintian to get not rebuilt at build time fonts... Best will be to add a timestamp but i think it destroy reproductible build step, so if timestamp could be overriden by an env variable (so it could be set to last changelog entry timestamp) and disable by a command line flags it will be good. Bastien > > -- > Regards, > > Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org > http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
