Hi Leo, Understood, and this level of scrutiny is actually an encouraging sign that Guix has standards! 😄
I am happy enough to have it this way for my personal use for now. Later, when I have more time, let me revisit. I have not experimented with this yet but I also understand I can create a separate repository as well. Maybe that will also do😄 Regards, Yasu > On Jan 10, 2021, at 19:38, Leo Prikler <leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> wrote: > > Hi Yasu, > > I don't think it'll be so simple. It appears, that nerd-fonts already > includes – or at least has the potential to include – some non-free > glyphs, which would in turn then be part of Cascadia. An instance > would be pomicons [1], which are licensed as CC BY-NC-ND. A reviewer > would first have to verify, that Cascadia is indeed wholly covered > under the OFL or at least under a set of free licenses. > > Yes, it sucks having to put that much effort into packaging a font, but > if you just want to have a workable font for programming, there are > probably better solutions than Cascadia, some of which are already > packaged in Guix – e.g. font-fira-code. > > Regards, > Leo > > [1] https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons > > Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2021, 19:11 +0900 schrieb Yasuaki Kudo: >> Thank you for your comments! >> >> Because I don't have a lot of time, is it ok to just re-format the >> original submission, get it committed with the comment that the >> package needs to be compiled rather than copied, when someone (or I) >> wants to so properly? >> >> Cheers, >> Yasu >> >> >>> On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:16, Leo Prikler < >>> leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Vincent, >>> >>> there is no .tar of the fonts however, that's a source tarball >>> generated by github. To be fair, one should probably build this >>> font >>> (and other fonts) from source instead. In particular, we might >>> want to >>> package nerd-fonts[1] first, since Cascadia appears to be an >>> iteration >>> of it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Leo >>> >>> [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts >>> >>> >
