[tex-live] Re: non-free fonts

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk
14 Oct 2002 12:58:44 +0100


On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 18:25, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> > I think whatever Debian does, we should follow, since we say that TL
> > follows DFSG.  Anything else seems intolerably confusing to me.
> 
> If it was me, I'd say DFSG with case by case exceptions for 3 (derived
> works). We are targetting end users with TL, and they usually want
> features and redistribution freedom, not development freedom.

Words like "exceptions" and "usually" fill me with horror. I personally
am only interested in a TeX Live which has no exceptions, and no
assumptions about its users.

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