Re: [PATCH] python-kivy and Adobe source-code-pro font

[Alex Griffin]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 01:42 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> That said, this needn't be a blocker for including the built OTF files
> in Guix, as long as the license permits all users to copy and
> redistribute them for commercial and non-commercial purposes, as these
> fonts are considered non-functional data.  See:
> 
>   
> http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html#non-functional-data

Are you sure about that? By my reading, that document explicitly
categorizes fonts as functional works by that document:

> “Information for practical use” includes software, documentation, fonts,
> and other data that has direct functional applications. It does not include
> artistic works that have an aesthetic (rather than functional) purpose,
> or statements of opinion or judgment.

Personally, I have avoided submitting my font-iosevka [1] package for
months because it just downloads the ttf files instead of building them
from the JavaScript source code. (Maybe when we have better node
support, eh?)

[1]: https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/
-- 
Alex Griffin