Re: Add Microsoft Cascadia Code font?

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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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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