[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#745732: [Pkg-fonts-devel] update fontforge (Re: Bug#745732: (no subject)

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Mon May 19 19:29:45 UTC 2014


Quoting Hideki Yamane (2014-05-19 13:45:19)
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:16:09 +0900
> Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> wrote:
>> I forgot entrely about it... oh, it's 4 months ago.
>> Probably would have a time to investigate it in next weekend, around 
>> 3th to 6th May, so please wait it. I'll put it from git to 
>> experimental.
>
>  Not yet done.

Great that you are still on it!


>  - don't know why libreadline is disabled

Perhaps because of licensing issues: Readline is a GNU project - I 
believe 5.x is GPL-2+ and 6.x is GPL-3+.

As you perhaps know already, fontforge need not be licensed identically, 
but the parts linking against Readline needs to be compatibly licensed - 
e.g. LGPL-2 or GPL-2 code can link against libreadline5 but not against
libreadline6.


 - Jonas

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