[bug#57637] Fwd: [bug#57637] [PATCH] gnu: Add font-monocraft.

[Maxime Devos]

I forgot to keep 57637 in CC ... sending a copy for the record.

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Subject:	Re: [bug#57637] [PATCH] gnu: Add font-monocraft.
Date:	Wed, 7 Sep 2022 15:43:46 +0200
From:	Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To:	Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space>

On 07-09-2022 07:17, Hilton Chain via Guix-patches via wrote:

+(define-public font-monocraft
+  (package
+    (name "font-monocraft")
+    (version "1.1")
+    (source (origin
+              (method git-fetch)
+              (uri (git-reference
+                    (url "https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft")
+                    (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+              (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "1a7ibdgzc900mfw0jmpqq8hb4lbx3m3sfmv0pl44b2bhmpqqg0l4"))))
+    (build-system font-build-system)
+    (home-page "https://idreesinc.com/")
+    (synopsis "The font for developers who like Minecraft a bit too much")
+    (description "A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft.")
+    (license license:silofl1.1)))

Going by the README.md, this font is based on <https://github.com/IdreesInc/Minecraft-Font>:

• The characters in this font were based around the typeface (*) used in the Minecraft UI, with a select few glyphs updated for better readability and spacing

(*) link to https://github.com/IdreesInc/Minecraft-Font>:

According at the README.md of <https://github.com/IdreesInc/Minecraft-Font>, 

The font has been carefully recreated pixel-by-pixel

, it is the same font as used in Minecraft.

Minecraft is non-free software.  It is possible that Minecraft's fonts have a separate free license,
but unless someone brings evidence of the contrary, I would assume that the copy (*) is not
allowed by Minecraft's license and that it does not allow letting the license of the modified font be silofl1.1.

As such, unfortunately it appears this cannot be included in Guix (and neither anywhere else).

Greetings,
Maxime

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