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Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion

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hi Gunnar,

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:04:22PM +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Debian considers fonts-ubuntu to be “non-free”, while Canonical disagrees.

the vrms package in Debian takes Debian's position and disagrees with
RMS, see "#537941: [vrms] GNU docs are nonfree, but vrms should think otherwise"
which is tagged wontfix for this reason.

So I don't think vrms should consider Canonical's opinion either.

But then...

> But vrms lists fonts-ubuntu as non-free also on Ubuntu systems.

I don't understand why this happens: if it were shipped in multiverse
or restricted, I'd understand, but AIUI fonts-ubuntu is part of ubuntu's
main section, which should be detected as free by vrms...

IOW: I don't see how vrms's code (or data) implements the above position
of Debian. Which leads me to another question, though probably rather
unrelated to this bug: where did you hear/read about this being the Debian
position? :)


All that said,, in a later follow up to the bug report you wrote:

> The idea is to apply the suggested exception at build time, but only 
> when building for Ubuntu. On Debian it would keep working as it 
> currently does.
 
I'd probably take a patch which implements this.


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Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-17 19:10 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-18 01:50 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 22:50 +0100
    Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-18 23:40 +0100
      Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 23:50 +0100
        Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com> - 2020-11-19 00:30 +0100
  Bug#974992: Licencing disagreement causes user confusion Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2020-11-18 23:00 +0100

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