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	(message from Erich Heinzle on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:54:50 +0930)
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Fonts for PCB Designer
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> If someone with git credentials could commit them, that would be
> appreciated.

Cool stuff!  But before they can be committed anywhere, some comments...

* commit *where*?  The url just has a few files with no README or
  diff.  The typical git process would be for you to "git
  format-patch" to extract your local commit of the files into an
  email that someone else could commit upstream.

* You specify GPL 3 but pcb uses GPL 2.  While normally this isn't a
  problem, using a different license may result is confusion or
  perhaps legal problems later on.

* "PCB Designer" is Allegro's layout tool.  gEDA's tool is just "PCB"
  or "gEDA/PCB".

* Could you give some examples of how PCB can use a non-ASCII font?
  We haven't added support for UTF or (officially) Latin-1.  Or does
  the user need to know how to map ASCII symbols to different glyphs
  in your fonts?  If so, that mapping would need to be documented too.

* We'd also need a diff for all the Makefiles and stuff to make sure
  the *.c is built and everything is included in the distribution
  tarball.