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Hello :),
A while ago (nearly a year!), I submitted pyfiglet for inclusion in the Fedora repositories. It was approved, but its inclusion was aborted as I found out about all the fonts included and nearly fainted at the sight of reviewing each of these fonts licenses. In retrospect, I should've contacted you to help me with those issues, which is why I decided to do it now.
Indeed, today @peterbrittain found out by luck of our effort to package pyfiglet and let us know that all the fonts which were not distributable were removed (as per #59). That is great, but unfortunately not enough. Indeed, for Fedora, it is required that the license of each font is documented and shipped with its license. And this package has fonts... A lot of them... And most are undocumented.
I also found out thanks to @peterbrittain that there is prior art in FIGlet licensing in Fedora, and what I seem to take out from that discussion is that if the shape and appearance of the fonts themselves are Public Domain, the files still remain under a font license.
So, what needs to be done is the curation of each font file in this repository. What could also be done is the creation of a new repository containing non-free or lost fonts that users can add easily using pyfiglet -L, while keeping safe fonts in the main repository.