After discovering the massive legal and packaging mess texlive fonts were (and TEX people are supposed to be serious about fonts), I propose the following addition to Fedora's general guidelines. (next to No inclusion of pre-built binaries or libraries)
It was not amusing when offenders were marginal games, but when core distribution packages make the same mistakes we have a problem.
No bundling of fonts in other packages
Given that fonts can be reused in many ways, that they can be bulky, that they usually have distinct licensing requirements, and that font legal problems are endemic:
- any package that makes use of fonts in a modern format like OpenType TT (TTF) or OpenType CFF (OTF) MUST have them packaged separately
- this separate package is subject to the distribution Font packaging guidelines. That includes all our font-specific legal checks.