Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Fabian, That's a good point; I'm not sure about this, though, as I don't want to suggest that this is a different font - it isn't, it's just a DFSG packaging of the same font. If there's a trademark issue, though, then of course that's a different matter. Best wishes, Julian On Sun, Jan

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Nathan, On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:46:46PM +, Nathan Willis wrote: > Please don't take the following info as stop-energy (which it's not), but > there > is already an active project doing the task of liberating the no-longer-free > symbols from Font Awesome, called ForkAwesome: >

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Nathan Willis
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:21 PM Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:21:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Julian Gilbey (2023-01-29 12:03:30) > > > If you would like me to go ahead and work on this, please say. > > > > Sure I would like you to go ahead - why would I

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Fabian Greffrath
02...@bugs.debian.org, Bastian Germann Betreff: Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:21:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:> Quoting Julian Gilbey (2023-01-29 12:03:30)> > If you would like me to go ahead and work on this, please say.> > Sure I would

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:21:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Julian Gilbey (2023-01-29 12:03:30) > > If you would like me to go ahead and work on this, please say. > > Sure I would like you to go ahead - why would I not want that? > > Sounds like a fun project, and Free, and

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Julian Gilbey (2023-01-29 12:03:30) > If you would like me to go ahead and work on this, please say. Sure I would like you to go ahead - why would I not want that? Sounds like a fun project, and Free, and beneficial to Debian. One thing you might consider is to name the resulting

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 04:47:35PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Bastian Germann (2023-01-24 16:28:59) > > [...] > > When you search Debian it turns out, Font Awesome 5 is around in A LOT of > > packages. > > A good starting point is > >

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bastian Germann (2023-01-24 16:28:59) > X-Debbugs-Cc: sebas...@xs4all.nl > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:31:55 -0400 Alexandre Viau wrote: > > For software to be considered to be included in Debian, it must be free > > software. We try to evaluate whether or not something is free software >

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2023-01-24 Thread Bastian Germann
X-Debbugs-Cc: sebas...@xs4all.nl On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:31:55 -0400 Alexandre Viau wrote: For software to be considered to be included in Debian, it must be free software. We try to evaluate whether or not something is free software by using the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)[1].

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2018-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 5:45 AM Rob Madole wrote: > if our build tool is required we can’t provide that. Could you provide some details about why this is? It might be that we can offer some ideas for ways forward if given more information. For example you could adopt a new build toolchain for

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2018-09-27 Thread Rob Madole
On Sep 27, 2018, 4:31 PM -0500, Alexandre Viau , wrote: > > Is there something that could be done so that Font-Awesome v5 can match > this interpretation of what is free software? Ah, thanks for summarizing for me, Alexandre. There isn’t anything more we can do at the moment. While the license

Bug#902981: Font Awesome v5 in Debian

2018-09-27 Thread Alexandre Viau
On 2018-09-27 5:11 p.m., Rob Madole wrote: I’m one of the core developers on the Font Awesome project. I can answer any specific questions and I’ll try and help where I can. Thank you for getting in touch! Probably the first question to get out of the way is: “Will Font Awesome open source