[Libreoffice-ux-advise] including Ubuntu fonts in Windows/OSX installers

[Michael Stahl]

On 24/01/13 21:15, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:56:29AM -0600, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Rene Engelhard <rene at debian.org> wrote:

>>> Yeah, For that reason it's /supposed to be in) non-free in Debian, see
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603157.
>>>
>>> We shouldn't include non-free stuff here.
>>
>> Yeah, it’s considered “non-free” by Debian, but we can apply the same
>> logic to the other “non-free” fonts added to LibreOffice, such as Open
>> Sans, Source {Code|Sans} Pro and PT Serif. But instead of removing
> 
> Err, you want to tell me we already have them in the sources?

it appears so, see
more_fonts/UnpackedTarball_{opensans,ptserif,sourcecode,sourcesans}.mk

but it can be disabled via --without-fonts

>> these from shipping in LibreOffice, Debian packaging should be the
>> place where these fonts are removed. Because its *Debian policy* which
>> should not obstaculize LibreOffice from shipping fonts to Windows.
> 
> Erm, you forgot this is a OSS project (aka "free software" for those who
> don't like "free"[1]). So we must not ship them either.

hmm... if the problem is "can only be built from source with non-free
tools", then i'm afraid we've got a few components in extensions/ that
can only be built with MSVC, not with MinGW, and of course the Windows
binaries also bundle non-free MSVC runtime.