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

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 24.11.21 10:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

Make sense, and seems that I've again shot from hips a bit too fast, there's
a issue open[0] on that repo regarding the missing license, mentioning explicitly
Debian, so I'll watch that one and won't bother this bug report until there's any
relevant actual change.

[0]: https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/issues/26

Thanks for your time.

cheers,
Thomas