On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 04:09 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > I don't know what the right answer is, but (gnu packages fonts) has > several font packages that simply download and unpack TTF files.
I was assuming that font editors typically operated directly on font files, so there is no corresponding source. I guess that's not true though, since FontForge operates on SFD files and Adobe apparently works with AFDKO files. The question is do we need to built fonts from source? I think we can package Source Code Pro either way. It looks like there are two versions of AFDKO, a free software version on GitHub [1] and one with non-free code on adobe.com. [1]: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko Thanks, -- Alex Griffin P.S. Iosevka is really weird because it's actually built from JavaScript code, and also because it tries to license the source under a BSD-style license and the built artifacts under the SIL OFL. I don't really know what to make of that.
