Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding Inferno to GNU Guix: font issues.

[Diego Nicola Barbato]

Hello Jason,

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately I did not receive it (I stumbled
across it while looking at the archive) either because it got gobbled up
by my spam filter or because you replied only to the mailing list (I am
not subscribed).

> On Sat, 2018-11-03 at 21:22 +0100, Diego Nicola Barbato wrote:
> > Is it enough to remove the non-free fonts in order to make Inferno
> > compatible with the FSDG, or are there further issues, namely that 
> > the fonts can not be rebuilt from source (i.e. there is no source) 
> 
> Under the FSDG fonts are mentioned as part of "information for
> practical use." [0]
> 
> The FSDG goes on to say that "all information for practical use in a
> free distribution must be available in source form."
> 
> If there is no source then it can't meet that criteria. It also sounds
> like a GPL violation if they're licensed in that way as you say and
> have no source. That's another reason to avoid them then since there
> would be no way to comply with the license even if they were added.
> 
> [0] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

Is it possible for the ‘subfont’ files to be considered source?  If I
read the man page correctly they are just images (in Inferno’s native
bitmap format [1]).

Greetings,

Diego

[1]:

image
Description: man/6/image