[Fedora-packaging] Bundled text-based .afm font files

[Josef Stribny]

Hi all,

I would like to package rubygem-prawn (PDF generator) [1, 2] for Fedora, but I am unsure about the font files that are bundled in the .gem file.

There are many .afm font files which seem not to be considered as font files according to the guidelines [3] as Miroslav in the review [2] already pointed out. Is this true and is it then fine to package them normally as any other files? Or is there a special approach of bundling/packaging text-based font files like .afm?

I opened an upstream issue regarding their licensing [4] and it seems to be fine for .afm files they ship (given that we include the corresponding "MustRead.html" license file).
Overall I am trying to find out how to not ship them at all, but the question still remains: how to properly package text-based fonts?

Thanks
Josef

[1] https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883437
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_%28FAQ%29#What_is_a_font_file.3F
[4] https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn/issues/474