Re: License of files in Documentation/pictures and ability to distribute them unclear

[Don Armstrong]

On Sun, 05 Jan 2014, Carl Peterson wrote:
> However, an alternative would be to somehow build the SVG to PNG at
> the expected size(s) as part of make. Not sure what that would take,
> though, or if it would add yet another dependency to the list.

For Debian, I'd be happy if the PNG was there so long as the SVG was
also distributed, ideally with a make rule to build the PNG. [Inkscape
is usually the easiest way to do this; I have a bunch of:

%.png: %.svg
       inkscape --without-gui --export-dpi=72 --export-png=$@ $<

or variants thereof in some of my projects.]

But the most important thing for me is just the licenses of those files;
source I can figure out in most cases.

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