[Pkg-fonts-devel] Debian logo codepoint

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:29:51PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> yeah, code-point squatting seems to be the name of the game, but it
> seems strange for debian as a project to weigh in here -- this is by
> definition not an interoperable standard. 
> 
> if you do decide to go ahead and add the swirl to part of the PUA of a
> font that is in debian, please do report back here, though, so that
> someone can update the wikipedia page, and other font developers can
> know and decide whether they want to follow suit.

My upstream just made a release and said:

# I have squatted U+F100 for the Debian Logo. Since the swirl logo is
# released optionally under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license, I see no reason not to
# incorporate it into the font. The license file was changed accordingly and
# everything went under v1.2.9.

> If anyone wants to suggest that the debian swirl itself belongs in
> unicode proper, this is the place to start:
> 
>  http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html

Hah, not me.  I don't think random logos belong in Unicode.

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