Remove proprietary fonts or replace with libre replacements

Swordfish90 / cool-retro-term

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

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Remove proprietary fonts or replace with libre replacements #712

Open throwaway1037 opened 2 years ago

throwaway1037 commented 2 years ago

Plainly proprietary:

app/qml/fonts/1977-apple2/
app/qml/fonts/1977-commodore-pet/
app/qml/fonts/1979-atari-400-800/ The author of this font may liberate it if asked.
app/qml/fonts/1982-commodore64/

The other fonts with a date from last century look a little bit fishy and may or may not actually be proprietary, that is if the libre licenses were not authorised by the copyright holder.

MrAureliusR commented 2 years ago

I don't think there are libre replacements for those fonts. They are supposed to be exact copies of what those systems looked like -- I don't know there's any way around that.

throwaway1037 commented 2 years ago

In that case, could there be a build option that omits proprietary fonts?

MrAureliusR commented 2 years ago

Possibly, but then you're kind of defeating half the purpose of this program! I'd imagine a ./configure option could be added, though I don't know the code base that well myself.