On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 01:42 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > That said, this needn't be a blocker for including the built OTF files > in Guix, as long as the license permits all users to copy and > redistribute them for commercial and non-commercial purposes, as these > fonts are considered non-functional data. See: > > > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html#non-functional-data
Are you sure about that? By my reading, that document explicitly categorizes fonts as functional works by that document: > “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. Personally, I have avoided submitting my font-iosevka [1] package for months because it just downloads the ttf files instead of building them from the JavaScript source code. (Maybe when we have better node support, eh?) [1]: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ -- Alex Griffin
