Hi all,
I recently stumbled with a monospaced font called White Rabbit [1] which I quite like.
It was produced by Matthew Welch of Square Gear. He has developed several fonts which are published in the "I Shot the Serif" section of his website [2].
Having done a quick search, I found that these fonts are not available on the Debian repos. There are some mentions in bug #298964 [3] and in this thread [4] from 2005 claiming that some of the fonts made by that foundry are non-free.
So here are my questions:
1. IANAL, but it would seem the fonts published in [2] are non-free, not because the license (they seem to be MIT-Style licensed [5]) but because the developer does not provide the sources. Am I guessing right?
2. Even so, I'd be glad to add these fonts to the non-free Debian repository, however I dunno whats the policy on non-free fonts? do you debianites avoid packaging them? if I'm the only one interested then my quest is pointless.
3. If there is interest, should I file an RFP bug? an ITP? follow the guidelines in [6]?
Thanks in advance,
- maurom