Re: [PATCH 33/33] video: Drop the Nimbus font

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 12:06:24PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

There is some concern that this font may be GPLv3 rather than GPLv2. This is is not desirable in U-Boot. Replace it with Roboto which has an Apache license.

See discussion here:

https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg335913.html

diff --git a/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig index c692fa9602..1b8b59311e 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig @@ -4,19 +4,19 @@

menu "TrueType Fonts"

-config CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_NIMBUS

• bool "Nimbus Sans Regular"

+config CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_ROBOTO

• bool "Roboto 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
  

•  Roboto was created in 2011 by Christian Robertson at Google, and
  

•  received a significant redesign in 2014. It is a sans-serif grotesque,
  

•  which is the same classification as Helvetica and Akzidenz-Grotesk.
  

•  Roboto is the default font on the Android mobile phone operating
  

•  system.
  

•  From: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/roboto
  

•  License: Apache 2.0
  

•  https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2

"Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2"