On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 06:42:47PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
Hi.
According to the Kconfig entry, drivers/video/fonts/nimbus_sans_l_regular.ttf is licensed under GPL v3.
How the license is handled when U-Boot is compiled with CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_NIMBUS=y ?
I am asking this since many companies, I guess, have GPL-v3 allergy.
config CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_NIMBUS bool "Nimbus Sans Regular" depends on CONSOLE_TRUETYPE default y help Nimbus Sans L is a version of Nimbus Sans using Adobe font sources. It was designed in 1987. A subset of Nimbus Sans L were released under the GPL. Although the characters are not exactly the same, Nimbus Sans L has metrics almost identical to Helvetica and Arial. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) From: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/nimbus-sans-l License: GNU GPL v3 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
It's a good question. I suspect the answer is that we should drop that font as I don't know if you can combine "GPLv2 only" and "GPLv2 or later" with "GPLv3".