From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: [PATCH] python-kivy and Adobe source-code-pro font Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:14:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1470867280.1134337.691880625.5A401152@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20160805193516.18edfdd9@openmailbox.org> <87ziokv51w.fsf@netris.org> <1470859724.1107266.691760609.0426E3A3@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160810210913.GA10002@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXbm5-0004fv-9c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:14:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXblz-0003no-Hn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:14:54 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:43424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXblx-0003li-5n for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:14:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160810210913.GA10002@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 04:09 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > I don't know what the right answer is, but (gnu packages fonts) has > several font packages that simply download and unpack TTF files. I was assuming that font editors typically operated directly on font files, so there is no corresponding source. I guess that's not true though, since FontForge operates on SFD files and Adobe apparently works with AFDKO files. The question is do we need to built fonts from source? I think we can package Source Code Pro either way. It looks like there are two versions of AFDKO, a free software version on GitHub [1] and one with non-free code on adobe.com. [1]: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko Thanks, -- Alex Griffin P.S. Iosevka is really weird because it's actually built from JavaScript code, and also because it tries to license the source under a BSD-style license and the built artifacts under the SIL OFL. I don't really know what to make of that.