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 > > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/font-in-non-font-package. > > It will take a lot of effort to get it out. I have started at #1025000. > > > > I agree with Alexandre here but there seem to be people that ignore this > > sentiment > > as you can see at #1027982. How would we go about it? > > Thanks for looking into this, Bastian. > > You are correct in filing such bugs with high severity. > > If the reaction as seen with bug#1027982 is more widespread, you might > consider adding a usertag to those bugreports, to ease later raising as > a general concern to debian-devel the issue of relaxed treatment of > licensing violations.
I am waiting for node-webfont to be accepted into the archive (it is currently sitting in NEW). Once that happens, I believe that I will be able to take the DFSG-free SVG files and some other data files from the upstream FontAwesome GitHub repository and build the FontAwesome 5 and 6 fonts from source. I will base my code heavily on https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign-Font-Build; see what I've done in a draft new version of the Material Design Icon font in my experimental packages at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont (though the change in version -2 getting rid of the fontname distinctions turns out to be wrong and I will revert to the version -1 scheme some point soon). This will mean that we will be able to ship a DFSG-free version of FontAwesome 5 and 6 in Debian; the webfonts may well not be byte-identical to the upstream versions, but they should be functionally identical. We can then ask the maintainers of the packages shipping these fonts to replace the embedded fonts with links to the DFSG-free versions. If you would like me to go ahead and work on this, please say. Practically speaking, this will be for bookworm+1 as there is no hope of getting any new version of FontAwesome into bookworm at this point - node-webfont is still waiting in NEW, and may not itself make it into bookworm, so I won't try to do it until after the bookworm release. (I would add myself to the Uploaders, and make the source package produce separate binary packages for FontAwesome 4.7, 5 and 6. I would also ask for a review from the Debian Fonts Team list before uploading.) Best wishes, Julian
