Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add font-ubuntu

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> Eric Dvorsak <eric@dvorsak.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/fonts/scm (font-ubuntu): New variable.
>
> That last "/" should have been a ".".  Oh well.

Oops. my bad.

>> I changed the license URL to
>> http://font.ubuntu.com/ufl/ubuntu-font-licence-1.0.txt and applied it.
>> Thank you!
>
> The patch labelled this license as 'non-copyleft', but I'm not sure
> that's right.  It includes this text:
>
>   4) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
>   must be distributed entirely under this licence, and must not be
>   distributed under any other licence.  [...]
>
> So this ensures that additional restrictions cannot be added later, like
> a copyleft license.

Good point.

> I'm not entirely sure it's a free software license as indicated by
> 'fsf-free' either,

Why?

> but that's okay because fonts qualify as non-functional data.  It
> might be that we don't yet have anything in (guix licenses) that
> applies here.  Maybe we need another license-producing procedure for
> non-functional works that satify the FSDG requirements?

Right, that’s something we could do in this case.  I’d be surprised if
this one were not considered FSF-free though?

Thank you,
Ludo’.