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Re: About packaging of ruby-gemoji



On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 01:01:47PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 02:46:55PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:54:27PM +0900, Youhei SASAKI wrote:
> > > I have a question about the "section" of ruby-gemoji-image-installer.  I
> > > plan to create this package is under some kind of DFSG-Free license
> > > (maybe Expat).  Is it "main" or "contrib"? I don't plan to execute this
> > > script by postinst, execute by someone who want to use such "non-free"
> > > images.
> > 
> > I think it is "contrib", like flashplugin-installer or
> > game-data-packager.
> 
> And since ruby-gemoji will effectively depend on it, it would also need
> to go into contrib.
> 
> There are more than one freely licensed emoji sets, a quick google
> search brings up:
> 
> http://emojione.com/
> https://github.com/twitter/twemoji
> https://github.com/Genshin/PhantomOpenEmoji
> 
> I would rather see effort in getting one of those into Debian, and
> encouraging upstreams to use that instead.

or maybe producing a compatible derivative of gemoji that uses those
images instead of the original non-free ones.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

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