Re: [PATCH 0/3] Various new fonts

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Alex,

Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com> skribis:

> I've been holding off on submitting them because they just copy TTF
> files instead of building from source, which I think may be against the
> FSDG.

I think copying TTFs is not perfect, but I don’t think it contradicts
the GNU FSDG.  What part of the FSDG did you have in mind?

> I brought up this point a few months back and nothing really came of
> it. I'm submitting them now because nobody else seems concerned, and
> I've been happy enough with these packages to use them myself. Many
> free fonts make it very difficult or impossible to build from source
> anyway.

So far I see only two of our font packages that depend on Fontforge; I
think the others simply copy TTF/OTF files around.

I’m not sure which discussion you’re referring to, but I think
long-term, we should encourage font packages that build from source.
However, I would not refuse packages that copy TTF/OTF files today
because the other packages are not up to that standard yet.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.