I might be wrong, but I thought fonts were considered non-functional data. If that's the case, isn't cc-by-nc-nd acceptable?
Le 10 janvier 2021 05:38:16 GMT-05:00, Leo Prikler <leo.prik...@student.tugraz.at> a écrit : >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 >> > >> >
