Re: Reverted: gnu: font-awesome: Update to 5.7.2.

[宋文武]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:03:10PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
>> iyzsong pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>> 
>> commit 590b989c95f5b72dfe4b9928d1426fb7d35d1428
>> Author: Pkill -9 <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Sat Feb 23 10:12:32 2019 +0000
>> 
>>     gnu: font-awesome: Update to 5.7.2.
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-awesome): Update to 5.7.2.
>>     [home-page]: Use HTTPS.
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: 宋文武 <address@hidden>
>
> If I understand correctly, Font Awesome 5 is incompatible with the Free
> System Distribution Guidelines, specifically this section [0]:
>
> ------
> “Information for practical use” includes software, documentation, fonts,
> and other data that has direct functional applications. It does not
> include artistic works that have an aesthetic (rather than functional)
> purpose, or statements of opinion or judgment.
>
> All information for practical use in a free distribution must be
> available in source form. (“Source” means the form of the information
> that is preferred for making changes to it.)
> ------
>
> The problem is that, in version 5, upstream stopped distributing the
> build scripts and so the icons can no longer be built from source even
> though the sources are distributed freely.

Okay, a unfortunate situation.

>
> We discussed this previously in bug #32916 [1] but unfortunately forgot
> to add a comment in the package definition warning of this issue.
>
> I've reverted this commit and added a comment about the issues in
> version 5.
>
> [0]
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html
> [1]
> https://bugs.gnu.org/32916

Thanks for the explanation!