[Pkg-fonts-devel] The 0-th (very) rough (and incomplete) draft of a Font Policy

[Changwoo Ryu]

2011/4/12 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't think we need to enforce providing source files
>
> I disagree, see DFSG item 2. Of course it is pretty hard to tell what
> the source files are for many fonts.

Many fonts don't have its "original" form, including Bitstream Vera,
so DejaVu either.

IMO source code of something is not its historically original format,
but a preferred form of modification, as the GPL defined. TTF/OTF data
can be considered as source codes in this sense.