Hi Wolfgang,
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 21:51, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Tom,
In message 20190726170700.GQ20116@bill-the-cat you wrote:
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 Ari=al.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) From: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/nimbus-sans-l License: GNU GPL v3 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIt'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".
Should we not first make sure the license is really GPLv3?
At the moment the URL https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/nimbus-sans-l does not work. But there are other sources which suggest that this font might actually be GPLv2 instead, see for example "Licensing" at https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/nimbus-sans-l
Yes I see that now. I am not actually sure of the license but it is certainly possible it could be GPLv2. Is there a way to find the authoritative source?
I will send a patch to replace this with roboto, which seems to be clearly licensed.
Regards, Simon