Re: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

[Alex Kost]

John Darrington (2015-01-18 18:58 +0300) wrote:

[...]
> It could become a real issue, if, say, the author dies, his hiers then decide 
> to
>  make it into a proprietary software.
>
> I think Guix is right to take the cautious approach.  
>
> (What actually depends on these fonts?  There are oodles of fonts today.  Can 
> it
> be substituted by something else?)

Nothing depends on Symbola font, so it may be safely ignored.  I just
use it all the time, so I proposed this package several months ago.

-- 
Alex