On 09/06/14 09:07, Paul Wise wrote:
I'm not sure what all this means in terms of the DFSG but it is probably OK.
May I suggest helping upstream to come up with reproducible buildpath instead of creating a Debian-specific one ? A much better long-term strategy for everyone.
You can look into libfont-ttf-scripts-perl (and newer repository version) which contain the volt2ttf and related utilities and can work with text-based representations of the smart features. (vtp files).
Type designers are increasingly moving towards using the .fea features files format.
BTW, if you haven't noticed yet, there are significant issues with the licensing of this font that still need fixing (it's sadly a non-standard mishmash of licenses with little coherence, legal validity or practical use cases: http://www.cle.org.pk/software/license/Nafees_Nastaleeq_License.html So I would expect our ftpmasters to seriously frown on this and reject it!). TTBOMK various people (including Mozilla) are in touch with upstream to get them to re-release under a community-approved license.
HTH, -- Nicolas