I asked one of the distributors (Dyalog) of the APL385 font and he
kindly addressed me to the page of the original Adrian Smith's font,
where it is explicitly mentioned that the font is in the public domain:

http://www.apl385.com/fonts/index.htm

> The readme for Emacs APL mode, at https://github.com/lokedhs/gnu-apl-mode,
> suggests to use GNU FreeFont, which is GPL'd. If you can't find documentation
> that your other font is PD or otherwise licensable, I'd use their "Free" Font.

It seems that GNU FreeFont is already in the port tree, so we have two
options here: either we add FreeFont as a dependency to the package
(which is not, technically) or we ship the APL385 font with the package,
or we preserve the distribution as it is and only add a 'README.openBSD'
to address the user to further resources, just like Emacs APL mode did.

Waiting for feedback before proceeding.

Best,

-- 
Giuseppe Cocomazzi
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