On Tue, 2023-05-09 at 01:02 -0400, Rick Calixte wrote: > request that the eligible fonts under the Nerd Fonts repository I don't think it is appropriate to package the Nerd Fonts repository for Debian in general. It just copies glyphs from a few icon fonts into a ton of other ones. That should not be needed since most font rendering now copes fine with rendering text from multiple fonts at once. If there is something that doesn't cope with this, it should be fixed instead of working around its brokenness with font patching. Also none of the copies of fonts they have include source formats, which might be a DFSG violation and a license violation for some fonts. Of course, the icon fonts that it copies from and the other fonts that it copies to should be packaged for Debian if they aren't already and are useful for someone, are DFSG-free and preferably have source code. > without matching upstreams be included in Debian's repository Could you explain some more about this? Where did these fonts come from if not from some other upstream? Most in your list definitely have one, I was able to find all except one via search engines and READMEs etc. > Aurulent Sans Mono Couldn't find one yet, I wonder where it really comes from. > BigBlueTerminal https://int10h.org/blog/2015/12/bigblue-terminal-oldschool-fixed-width-font/ > Code New Roman A comment here says this is a derivative work of Microsoft Consolas: https://localfonts.eu/freefonts/traditional-cyrillic-free-fonts/code-new-roman/ So this probably isn't even allowed to be redistributed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/consolas > Comic Shanns Mono https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono > DaddyTimeMono https://github.com/BourgeoisBear/DaddyTimeMono > Gohu http://font.gohu.eu https://github.com/koemaeda/gohufont-ttf > Heavy Data Mono License in Nerd Fonts repo doesn't look DFSG-free. Likely from: https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.vicfieger.com/~font/ > Iosevka > Iosevka Term https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ > Lekton https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/lekton > Lilex https://github.com/mishamyrt/Lilex > Meslo Based on an Apple font, so might not be redistributable. https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font > Overpass (Bold and Light variants available in pki-server package) https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/Overpass > ProFont https://tobiasjung.name/profont/ ; > Space Mono https://github.com/googlefonts/spacemono > Victor Mono https://github.com/rubjo/victor-mono -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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