[Pkg-javascript-devel] twemoji packaging: Fonts question

[Felix Natter]

Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 2:34 PM Felix Natter wrote:
>
>> 2. quoting Jonas:
>> "Speaking of SVGs, are you sure this is the real source of those SVG
>> files? It seems amchine-generated to me, and I suspect there is real
>> concern as to freedom aspects of distributing only as provided here.
>> Even if you choose to use the JavaScript team as platform for your
>> package maintenance, I recommend that you discuss the issue of source of
>> fonts with the font team, as there is collected quite some knowledge and
>> experience in that team."
>
> While the SVG files are clearly not hand-written with a text editor,
> that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't source, they could be
> edited using a GUI editor, and SVG files often are edited with GUI
> editors like Inkscape. Unfortunately they don't have any metadata to
> indicate how they were created, so only upstream is able to answer
> whether or not they are source files or not. OTOH....
>
> Looking at the git repository, there is some indication that they are
> using Adobe Illustrator to edit the files; there is a commit message
> "Remove the AI assets, as this is a proprietary format and the SVGs
> should suffice for editing". It isn't clear to me if this means they
> no longer use the AI files and use Adobe Illustrator to edit the SVG
> files or if they still use the AI files but keep them secret for
> internal use but expect downstream folks to be fine just editing the
> SVG files. The way that the commits that update the SVG/PNG files
> (just dumping a whole bunch of changes into one commit, instead of
> logical commits) and the fact that the PNG files have no automatic
> build system makes me think that the AI files are still the source and
> they are in an internal-to-Twitter project that just sends a pre-built
> SVG/PNG dump to the GitHub project every once in a while.
>
> https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/commit/d008619cc043b65bc6283f2b0d882b8d088811c2
>
> So I suggest contacting the project to discuss how they develop the
> SVGs. Also, sending them a patch for one of the SVGs would be an
> interesting way to test where their actual source is. Probably asking
> them to autobuild the PNG files would be a good idea too.

I have tried to create an issue for this question:
  https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/issues/429

but did not get a reply in two weeks. I did not find an email address on
github or on https://developer.twitter.com...
On github I found email addresses that are not related to twitter, i.e.
https://github.com/jdecked.

Do you have an idea?

Thanks and Best Regargs,
Felix
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Felix Natter