[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#819273: Bug#819273: Bug#819273: Google sources for Roboto Mono font

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Thomas Lamprecht (2021-11-24 10:03:09)
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 18:45:25 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > Quoting Thomas Lamprecht (2021-11-21 17:29:07)
> > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:35:41 +0000 Phil Armstrong <phil at kantaka.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:35:58 -0500 Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> > > >  >Google hasn't really published their sources for Roboto Mono yet so I
> > > > think it's more appropriate for that to go into contrib instead for
> > > > now.
> > > > 
> > > > The sources to Roboto Mono appear to have been published here in 2018:
> > > > 
> > > >    https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono
> > > > 
> > > > but there’s no licence in the repo at the moment. I’ve raised an issue, 
> > > > so hopefully Google will add one & we can get this font packaged in Debian!
> > > 
> > > There's also another repo with a license file which marks it as Apache-2.0:
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/apache/robotomono
> > 
> > As previously mentioned in this bugreport, 
> > https://github.com/google/fonts/ contains only binary products, not 
> > sources.  License for non-source code is relevant only if released in 
> > non-free.
> > 
> 
> Argh, sorry - missed that; but it seems that the other repo also linked here in
> this bug report got some updates since its initial mentioning (when it wasn't complete
> yet), and contains now all sources (FWICT, not really a font developer):
> 
> https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/tree/main/sources
> 
> and also the built fonts, e.g.:
> https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/tree/main/fonts/ttf
> 
> would that be enough?

Haven't tested but might be enough source to produce binaries, yes.

But for Debian to _distribute_ produced binaries, license is required 
which seems still missing for the source project.


 - Jonas

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