Shriram, On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 8:30:54 AM MST Shriram Ravindranathan wrote: > Upon inspecting the embedded font, It seems to be a bespoke icon-font > generated using a tool called "Fontello" from one of the icons of the > octicons iconset from Atom <https://github.com/primer/octicons> (MIT > Licensed SVGs) > > The font has only 1 glyph, Would it suffice to add this source image to > d/missing-souces and add that copyright info to d/copyright?
I would assume so. If anyone on mentors knows differently please speak up. > On 21/02/24 9:56 am, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > > > > > Shriram, > > > > > > > > > > 1. For anything that has the unminified source in the upstream > > tarball, I would just create a lintian override with a comment listing > > the full path to the source for each file. You can see an example of > > how this can be done here: > > > > > > > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtwebengine/-/blob/master/debian/ sou > > rce/lintian-overrides?ref_type=heads > > > > > > > > > Typically you only copy the source to the debian/missing-sources > > directory when it is not included in the upstream tarball and you have > > had to acquire it from another place. > > > > > > > > > > 2. The github link below includes an embedded font in woff format. > > Typically, fonts like this would be considered compiled, so a separate > > font source would be needed. However, I’m not sure what the Debian > > guidance for dealing with an HTML embedded font like this. If someone > > else on mentors doesn’t know, I would recommend you ask on debian-legal. > > > > > > > > > > As these are mostly README files, and if it becomes difficult for you > > to acquire the source for some of them, you might consider excluding > > those you can’t get the source for, at least temporarily, using > > Files-Excluded in debian/copyright (and then running uscan, which will > > produce a modified tarball that does not include the problematic > > files). For example, see: > > > > > > > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/cryptocoin-team/electrum/-/blob/master/debian/ copyr > > ight?ref_type=heads > > > > > > > > > Whether this is a good option depends on how helpful those README > > files are for the users of your package. If you go this route, you > > should add +dfsg to the version of your package to indicate that the > > upstream tarball has been repackaged to remove files that are not free > > (or for which the source is not available). > > > > > > > > > > Soren > > > > > > -- > Shriram Ravindranathan > ters > -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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