On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:46:19AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 12-Oct-2001 Erich Schubert wrote: > > Please CC: me on replys, i'm not subscribed to the list. > > > > I asked the author of some Freeware fonts, if he could licence them > > under an open source licence. > > This is his reply, please check the Licence below, if this classifies > > them open source for Debian. > > > > art and data are odd areas. The right to freely modify a work is important to > free software. Best thing you can do is point him to our open source > definition. I suspect free fonts will never happen, just like other art > forms.
I think it important to Debian that we have fully free fonts, regardless of the questions about other art or data. I and Branden and probably others would submit a serious bug on any non-free fonts in main. Many other art forms have been free. Legends, tales and jokes have been free for the history of mankind. Most of the art that Debian will be concerned with has high craftmanship aspects, which would lead me to hope that it would be more likely to be free. IMO, the reason so many fonts aren't free, is cultural; the font community has non-free license norms, like the MS-DOS/Windows programming communities (especially pre-97 or so.) Note the large number of free MetaFont fonts. We just need to convince font people that they should release under free licneses. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis
