Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:03:10PM -0500, guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: >> iyzsong pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit 590b989c95f5b72dfe4b9928d1426fb7d35d1428 >> Author: Pkill -9 <pki...@runbox.com> >> 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 <iyzs...@member.fsf.org> > > 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!
