[Pkg-fonts-devel] New release: GNU FreeFont

[Davide Viti]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:34:38PM +0200, Steve White wrote:
> 
> There is a big difference in nature between an executable machine
> binary and a ttf file.
> 
> A machine binary may be meant to do a complex set of tasks, but a
> human's only hope of really understanding what it does, or changing
> what it does, is by looking at the human-written source code it was
> made from.  Compliling program source code is a loss of information.
> 
> In contrast a TrueType file is a description of how to draw a set of
> characters.  It isn't textual but it represents all of its
> information, and its format is public, and it can be edited by several
> means.  And it is cross-platform.
> 
> Like jpeg, png, etc.
> 
> You don't insist on building all your jpegs and png files from source
> (I think).  Why do you insist on building ttf files?

I guess most of the concepts behind Debian are wery well expressed on
various docs and I'd start from the DFSG:

http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines

regards,
Davide