Accepting contributions for Rust-based font indexing?
Dominik Röttsches
drott at chromium.org
Thu Sep 12 08:32:40 UTC 2024
Hi Keith,
Great to hear you like the proposal, thanks!
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> > * Would you be ready to consider accepting such contributions?
>
> Assuming the Fontations library has a suitable license, that sounds
> fantastic. From the subject, I hoped you were planning on re-writing
> fontconfig in Rust as well, but it sounds like that's not in plan
> (yet). Alas.
Yes, Fontations is dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2 license [1] -
so the licenses are compatible.
True, at this point, I can't commit to a full Rust rewrite, even
though I considered that option for a bit.
Dominik
[1] https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations
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