Re: How text files / documentation affect package licensing

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On August 10, 2022 7:18:35 PM UTC, Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:52 PM Dan Čermák
><dan.cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think that there's another pitfall here: if you e.g. build a HTML documentation, then you should (?) include the license of all the bundled fonts, CSS and JavaScript as well. I'm afraid we mostly don't do this at all.
>
>Right.  Documentation builders such as doxygen and python-sphinx drop
>CSS, JavaScript, and image files into the built documentation.  Those
>may carry the license of the documentation builder, or an entirely
>different license.  If those documentation builders each provided a
>subpackage that contains the stuff that might be copied into
>documentation, then we could swizzle our documentation packages to use
>symlinks into those subpackages.  I'm not clear on how that would
>affect the licensing, though.  Also, that means that if you update
>your documentation builder so that the static stuff is not backwards
>compatible, you have to rebuild everything that uses it.  That might
>be more pain than we want to deal with.
>
>> PDF would be probably a lot safer.
>
>Then we have to worry about the licenses of embedded fonts, right?

Yes, but AFAIK HTML documentation also pulls in fonts.
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