Re: Add Microsoft Cascadia Code font?

[Leo Prikler]

Hi Yasu,

I don't think it'll be so simple.  It appears, that nerd-fonts already
includes – or at least has the potential to include – some non-free
glyphs, which would in turn then be part of Cascadia.  An instance
would be pomicons [1], which are licensed as CC BY-NC-ND.  A reviewer
would first have to verify, that Cascadia is indeed wholly covered
under the OFL or at least under a set of free licenses.

Yes, it sucks having to put that much effort into packaging a font, but
if you just want to have a workable font for programming, there are
probably better solutions than Cascadia, some of which are already
packaged in Guix – e.g. font-fira-code.

Regards,
Leo

[1] https://github.com/gabrielelana/pomicons

Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2021, 19:11 +0900 schrieb Yasuaki Kudo:
> Thank you for your comments!
> 
> Because I don't have a lot of time, is it ok to just re-format the
> original submission, get it committed with the comment that the
> package needs to be compiled rather than copied, when someone (or I)
> wants to so properly?
> 
> Cheers,
> Yasu
> 
> 
> > On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:16, Leo Prikler <
> > leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Vincent,
> > 
> > there is no .tar of the fonts however, that's a source tarball
> > generated by github.  To be fair, one should probably build this
> > font
> > (and other fonts) from source instead.  In particular, we might
> > want to
> > package nerd-fonts[1] first, since Cascadia appears to be an
> > iteration
> > of it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Leo
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
> > 
> >