> Btw, the issue with uploading p9p to google-code would go away if p9p
> included some set of free fonts (and perhaps people could download the
> non-free ones if they feel like it), the non-free fonts have made
> distribution and re-distribution of Inferno a huge pain, and preclude
> the packaging of p9p and Inferno for many linux distributions
> /end-offtopic-rant

No.  Even if the fonts were excluded, google code
requires that all code hosted there use one of a small
number of licenses, and the Lucent Public License 1.02
is not one of those licenses.

I'm sorry about the font situation but I can't get excited about it.
How hard is it for people to run rm?  If there were a set of
fonts of equal quality with a more liberal license that I could
substitute, I would, but anti-aliased fonts look like crap to me
and everything seems to be antialiased these days.

Only one person has ever contacted me about pain relating
to fonts.  That person was concerned about whether it was
permissible to distribute the fonts as part of plan9port itself.
In response I got explicit permission to do so and amended
http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/font/luc/NOTICE etc.
I believe this was for FreeBSD; now there is a package.

I realize that Debian doesn't like the font license even as it
is now; too bad for them.  That doesn't preclude someone
else making .deb files and hosting them on their own server.

Russ

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