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From: yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: Re: Add Microsoft Cascadia Code font?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:55:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aa1933d4ce01b45b4407b178a335ca1415f0ace.camel@yasuaki.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9897CE46-E860-4BB2-BA5D-B262709FF112@lepiller.eu>

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Well, let me know if that's the case!  After all, my submission is
almost identical as the existing packages such as font-ibm-plex and
font-inconsolata?
I would prefer not to "fork" as another repository if I can avoid it!
-Yasu
On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 07:28 -0500, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> I might be wrong, but I thought fonts were considered non-functional
> data. If that's the case, isn't cc-by-nc-nd acceptable?
> 
> Le 10 janvier 2021 05:38:16 GMT-05:00, Leo Prikler <
> leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> a écrit :
> > Hi Yasu,
> > 
> > I don't think it'll be so simple.  It appears, that nerd-fonts
> > already
> > includes – or at least has the potential to include – some non-free
> > glyphs, which would in turn then be part of Cascadia.  An instance
> > would be pomicons [1], which are licensed as CC BY-NC-ND.  A
> > reviewer
> > would first have to verify, that Cascadia is indeed wholly covered
> > under the OFL or at least under a set of free licenses.
> > 
> > Yes, it sucks having to put that much effort into packaging a font,
> > but
> > if you just want to have a workable font for programming, there are
> > probably better solutions than Cascadia, some of which are already
> > packaged in Guix – e.g. font-fira-code.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Leo
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2021, 19:11 +0900 schrieb Yasuaki Kudo:
> > > Thank you for your comments!
> > > 
> > > Because I don't have a lot of time, is it ok to just re-format
> > > the
> > > original submission, get it committed with the comment that the
> > > package needs to be compiled rather than copied, when someone (or
> > > I)
> > > wants to so properly?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Yasu
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:16, Leo Prikler <
> > > > leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello Vincent,
> > > > 
> > > > there is no .tar of the fonts however, that's a source tarball
> > > > generated by github.  To be fair, one should probably build
> > > > this
> > > > font
> > > > (and other fonts) from source instead.  In particular, we might
> > > > want to
> > > > package nerd-fonts[1] first, since Cascadia appears to be an
> > > > iteration
> > > > of it.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Leo
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
> > > > 
> > > > 

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-10 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-10  9:16 Add Microsoft Cascadia Code font? Leo Prikler
2021-01-10  9:39 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-01-10 10:11 ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-01-10 10:38   ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-10 10:56     ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-01-10 12:28       ` yasu
2021-01-10 12:28     ` Julien Lepiller
2021-01-10 12:55       ` yasu [this message]
2021-01-10 13:09       ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-10 14:28         ` Julien Lepiller
2021-01-10 23:37         ` Mark H Weaver
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2021-01-10  8:04 yasu
2021-01-10  8:46 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-01-10  8:51   ` Vincent Legoll

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