Debian Bug report logs - #583619
RFP: otf-googlefonts -- Free Web Fonts by Google

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Cc: gurkan@phys.ethz.ch

Subject: RFP: otf-googlefonts -- Free Web Fonts by Google

Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 00:15:25 +0300

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : otf-googlefonts
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
* License         : Multiple licenses
  Description     : Free Web Fonts by Google

See also:

http://code.google.com/webfonts

http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/

        "19 May 2010 (updated 19 May 2010 at 17:47 UTC)

        Today we're launching the Google Font API. I've been working
        over the past couple of months with highly talented font
        designers to get a great collection of fonts released as open
        source. Almost all the fonts are under the Open Font License,
        and in our discussions I've been sensing a huge amount of
        momentum behind this license.

        Obviously, the main reason we're doing this is to have a
        richer set of fonts for the web. But since the fonts are all
        open source, they can be used for lots of other things. I'm
        confident this collection will shortly show up in Linux
        distribution. We've created a Google Code project to host the
        fonts in the Google Font Directory, many of which contain
        FontForge or FontLab source. I want to run that in open source style,
        and invite people working on packaging fonts for Linux and
        other open source projects to help curate the project."


-- 
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv
"Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur."

Message #10 received at 583619@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger@sil.org>

To: 583619@bugs.debian.org

Subject: RFP: otf-googlefonts -- Free Web Fonts by Google

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:27:00 +0200

There have already been various discussions on this but I'm now adding
it to this particular bug.

These libre/open fonts must be packaged separately and not in a huge
lump of different upstreams, usecases and licenses.

No one is likely to use them all at the same time.

This is in line with the general policies of the pkg-fonts team.

Some of these fonts are already packaged by members of the pkg-fonts
team: http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org


This RFP should probably be closed.



-- 
Nicolas Spalinger,
SIL NRSI volunteer - http://scripts.sil.org
Debian fonts task force -  http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org
Open font community - http://planet.open-fonts.org

Message #15 received at 583619-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

To: 583619-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing

Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 01:11:53 +0200

As Nicolas Spalinger said:
> These libre/open fonts must be packaged separately and not in a huge
> lump of different upstreams, usecases and licenses.

Thus, I'm closing this.  We can package individual fonts.

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