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Archived since there are many great open source font sites already, see https://github.com/opensourcedesign/fonts/issues/21
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Create a Debian package for "freedom fonts" #14

Open bnvk opened 8 years ago

bnvk commented 8 years ago

Wouldn't it be awesome if one could do sudo apt-get install freedom-fonts and then get all sorts of cool open licensed "design-y" fonts installed on your Linux machine? I sure think it would be!!!

I started working towards this using Launchpad.net as per @eighthave instruction, as my Debian (and packaging in general) knowledge is are lacking. I need to revist this effort and will update as I make progress!

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fonts-indic might be a good reference for this

eighthave commented 8 years ago

Good to see progress here! I can help out with the process. One thing to note is that the whole Google web fonts collection are free fonts that could be packaged and included in Debian.

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

I am contracted by Google to manage the collection.

I just wrote and published https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery/pull/661/files so you can see where I hope to go this year which will help Debian and similar folks, since at the moment a lot of the families aren't developed like regular (libre) software and probably can't belong in main just yet.