Bug#1135099: ITP: fonts-fontawesome-dfsg -- The FontAwesome webfonts, built in a DFSG-compliant way

Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <177730519005.1719448.16749054511373432700.reportbug__26314.1745746665$1777305339$gmane$org@erdos.d-and-j.net>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

* Package name    : fonts-fontawesome-dfsg
  Version         : 7.2.0+dfsg1
  Upstream Contact: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>
* URL             : "Upstream" URL is
                    https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
                    DFSG-version URL will be on salsa
* License         : CC BY 4.0 for SVG fonts, MIT for building scripts
  Programming Lang: JavaScript for building scripts
  Description     : The FontAwesome webfonts, built in a DFSG-compliant way

This package contains the free FontAwesome fonts built as EOT, TTF,
WOFF and WOFF2 fonts.  They are not (necessarily) bitwise-identical to
the official FontAwesome fonts.

The FontAwesome webfonts are used by multiple packages, but the
webfonts are not DFSG-free, as the upstream build process is private
(see https://bugs.debian.org/902981).  This package builds the
FontAwesome webfonts from the upstream SVG sources (which are
DFSG-free).  This differs from the ForkAwesome project, in that the
icons are the original FontAwesome ones.


The package will generate both the up-to-date version 7 fonts, but
also legacy version 5 and version 6 fonts (which are used by some
packages).

The package will be hosted within the Debian Fonts Task Force area on
Salsa.
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