On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:23:51 -0400, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: 

> You forgot one other thing.  We'll also have to strip **ALL**
> **FONTS** from Debian, since fonts come in binary form, and we don't
> have anything approaching the "preferred form for modification" for
> fonts.  In particular, the Truetype Bitstream Vera fonts which were
> so generously donated by Vera was generated not only using
> propietary source files, but also using propietary non-free
> programs.

        Are you sure about that? The 100dpi, 75dpi (and other
 bitmapped fonts) do seem to come with the sources (indeed, I am given
 to undertand that when the uTF-8 extentions were added by Markus
 Kuhn, only free software was used).

        manoj
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