From: Benoit Joly <benoit@benoitj.ca>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at>,
57149@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#57149] [PATCH] gnu: Add font-nerd-fonts-firacode
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:30:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E20632FA-F3F0-4D23-9777-2424CE888A64@benoitj.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e97530768cf6c9f906d9b7ea29435f17ca49344a.camel@ist.tugraz.at>
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Hi,
I'll have a look on the licensing. It's not worth the effort if this is non free.
Thanks for the feedback!
Benoit
On August 12, 2022 5:51:09 AM EDT, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> wrote:
>Am Freitag, dem 12.08.2022 um 00:23 -0400 schrieb Benoit Joly:
>> * gnu/packages/fonts (font-nerd-fonts-firacode): New variable.
>> ---
>> gnu/packages/fonts.scm | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
>> index 20b55bce96..0ce9ba8414 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
>> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
>> ;;; Copyright © 2021 Liliana Marie Prikler
>> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2022 Jose G Perez Taveras <josegpt27@gmail.com>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2022 Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space>
>> +;;; Copyright © 2022 Benoit Joly <benoit@benoitj.ca>
>> ;;;
>> ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>> ;;;
>> @@ -2795,3 +2796,37 @@ (define-public font-chiron-hei-hk
>> Kong variant of Adobe’s Source Han Sans. The font aims at providing
>> a modern,
>> region-agnostic glyph set adopting the “modern” glyph style that is
>> similar to
>> prevalent typefaces in Traditional Chinese regions.")))
>> +
>> +(define-public font-nerd-fonts-fira-code
>> + (package
>> + (name "font-nerd-fonts-fira-code")
>> + (version "2.1.0")
>> + (source
>> + (origin
>> + (method url-fetch)
>> + (uri
>> + (string-append
>> + "https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v"
>> + version
>> + "/FiraCode.zip"))
>> + (sha256
>> + (base32
>> + "1rx7zrkq0584k6hrh6dx30xrnz5nq379xyw73pfd4gxaxnh9mpi1"))))
>Use (uri (string-append "..."
> "...")
>> + (build-system font-build-system)
>> + (arguments
>> + `(#:phases
>> + (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> + (add-before 'install 'make-files-writable
>> + (lambda _
>> + (for-each
>> + make-file-writable
>> + (find-files "." ".*\\.(otf|otc|ttf|ttc)$"))
>> + #t)))))
>Why do the files need to be made writable for install?
>
>> + (home-page "https://www.nerdfonts.com/")
>> + (synopsis "Nerd fonts variant of FiraCode font")
>> + (description
>> + "Nerd fonts variant of FiraCode font. Nerd Fonts is a project
>> that patches
>> +developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons).
>> Specifically to
>> +add a high number of extra glyphs from popular 'iconic fonts' such
>> as Font
>> +Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.")
>> + (license license:silofl1.1)))
>The description should consist of full sentences. Note that Nerd fonts
>pulls in icons that are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND, which makes them
>unfree. I'm not sure if those icons are present in the default
>distribution, but I'd hazard a guess that they are.
>
>More concerningly, the patches that can be applied via nerd fonts are
>directly coded into their font-patcher, rather than, say, distributed
>as a json file to be read separately. As far as I'm aware, this makes
>nerd-fonts (the tool) itself NG.
>
>Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-12 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-12 4:23 [bug#57149] [PATCH] gnu: Add font-nerd-fonts-firacode Benoit Joly
2022-08-12 9:51 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-12 12:30 ` Benoit Joly [this message]
2022-08-21 14:30 ` Benoit Joly
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