* Frank Küster: > I'm wondering whether a document that's licensed under a DFSG-free > license, with TeX/sgml/whatever sources available and all, may use > non-free fonts. For example, the LaTeX source would contain > > \usepackage{lucidabr} > > and you'd be able to create the document from that source only if you > have either the commercial or otherwise non-free font installed, or you > replace/remove that line.
The resulting PDF would still be non-free: If it were free, I would be allowed to reconstruct the embedded Type 1 fonts and use them freely (according to DFSG-compliant license terms), which is clearly not the case. Therefore, you have to rebuild the documentation anyway, using free fonts.