bug#53907: font-ibm-plex has a nonfree dependency

2022-02-11 Thread Greg Farough
Hi, Guix developers: As far as I can tell, the IBM Plex family of fonts requires the nonfree program FontLab Studio to build. From Plex's GitHub[1] page: > To build binary font files from .vfb sources you need FontLab Studio > 5. A Python script called IBM Plex export FDK files.py is necessary >

bug#53907: font-ibm-plex has a nonfree dependency

2022-02-09 Thread Philip McGrath
Hi, On 2/9/22 16:39, Greg Farough wrote: Hi, Guix developers: As far as I can tell, the IBM Plex family of fonts requires the nonfree program FontLab Studio to build. ... This is one of the reasons Debian[3] has moved the font to the "contrib" section of its repos. IBM releases Plex as "o