Re: [PATCH] python-kivy and Adobe source-code-pro font

[Alex Griffin]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 04:09 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I don't know what the right answer is, but (gnu packages fonts) has
> several font packages that simply download and unpack TTF files.

I was assuming that font editors typically operated directly on font
files, so there is no corresponding source. I guess that's not true
though, since FontForge operates on SFD files and Adobe apparently works
with AFDKO files. The question is do we need to built fonts from source?

I think we can package Source Code Pro either way. It looks like there
are two versions of AFDKO, a free software version on GitHub [1] and one
with non-free code on adobe.com.

[1]: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko

Thanks,
-- 
Alex Griffin

P.S. Iosevka is really weird because it's actually built from JavaScript
code, and also because it tries to license the source under a BSD-style
license and the built artifacts under the SIL OFL. I don't really know
what to make of that.