We have a package of font-awesome, currently at version 4.7.0. It's a very simple package, installing the files generated by upstream rather than trying to rebuild them. As of version 5, the tools used to build the generated files are not free: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902981 https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/13467 Is this a problem for us under the FSDG? Quoting the FSDG [0]: ------ “Information for practical use” includes software, documentation, fonts, and other data that has direct functional applications. It does not include artistic works that have an aesthetic (rather than functional) purpose, or statements of opinion or judgment. All information for practical use in a free distribution must be available in source form. (“Source” means the form of the information that is preferred for making changes to it.) ------ Since we don't have the form of the fonts that is preferred for making changes to them, my interpretation is that we can't include font-awesome version 5. What do you think? [0] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html
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