Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding Inferno to GNU Guix: font issues.
Hello Jason, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I did not receive it (I stumbled across it while looking at the archive) either because it got gobbled up by my spam filter or because you replied only to the mailing list (I am not subscribed). > On Sat, 2018-11-03 at 21:22 +0100, Diego Nicola Barbato wrote: > > Is it enough to remove the non-free fonts in order to make Inferno > > compatible with the FSDG, or are there further issues, namely that > > the fonts can not be rebuilt from source (i.e. there is no source) > > Under the FSDG fonts are mentioned as part of "information for > practical use." [0] > > The FSDG goes on to say that "all information for practical use in a > free distribution must be available in source form." > > If there is no source then it can't meet that criteria. It also sounds > like a GPL violation if they're licensed in that way as you say and > have no source. That's another reason to avoid them then since there > would be no way to comply with the license even if they were added. > > [0] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html Is it possible for the ‘subfont’ files to be considered source? If I read the man page correctly they are just images (in Inferno’s native bitmap format [1]). Greetings, Diego [1]: image Description: man/6/image
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding Inferno to GNU Guix: font issues.
On Sat, 2018-11-03 at 21:22 +0100, Diego Nicola Barbato wrote: > Is it enough to remove the non-free fonts in order to make Inferno > compatible with the FSDG, or are there further issues, namely that > the fonts can not be rebuilt from source (i.e. there is no source) Under the FSDG fonts are mentioned as part of "information for practical use." [0] The FSDG goes on to say that "all information for practical use in a free distribution must be available in source form." If there is no source then it can't meet that criteria. It also sounds like a GPL violation if they're licensed in that way as you say and have no source. That's another reason to avoid them then since there would be no way to comply with the license even if they were added. [0] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.htm l
[GNU-linux-libre] Adding Inferno to GNU Guix: font issues.
Hello folks, I have written a package definition for adding Inferno [1] to GNU Guix [2]. While trying to determine if Inferno is compatible with the FSDG some questions concerning bundled fonts and licensing arose, which I was unable to answer myself, so it was suggested that I ask for advice on this mailing list [3]. In this mail I will only ask about the font issues. I will address the licensing issues in a separate thread. The ‘fonts’ directory in the Inferno source tree (as provided by this [4] mercurial repository) contains a variety of fonts in a format [5] native to Inferno (and Plan 9). Some of these fonts (‘lucidasans’, ‘pelm’, ‘lucida’ and ‘lucm’) are non-free (copyright Bigelow & Holmes [6]) and I took care to remove them from the source. Among the remaining fonts ‘jis’ and ‘misc’ are derived from X (according to their respective README [7][8]) and ‘vera’ is probably derived from ‘Bitstream Vera’, whereas ‘big5’ [9], ‘courier’, ‘gb’ and ‘minitel’ are of unclear origin. Finally ‘charon’, ‘chinese’, and ‘minicharon’ simply reuse "subfonts" from the previously mentioned fonts. It should be further noted that IIUC it is implied by the NOTICE [10] in the root of the source tree that the fonts which do not have their own license are GPLv2+. Is it enough to remove the non-free fonts in order to make Inferno compatible with the FSDG, or are there further issues, namely that the fonts can not be rebuilt from source (i.e. there is no source) and that the origin of some of them is unclear? Greetings Diego [1]: http://inferno-os.org [2]: https://gnu.org/software/guix [3]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00440.html [4]: https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os [5]: font Description: man/6/font [6]: LICENCE Description: fonts/LICENSE [7]: README Description: fonts/jis/README [8]: README Description: fonts/misc/README [9]: README Description: fonts/big5/README [10]: NOTICE Description: NOTICE
