On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:13 AM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 03:34:20AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 11:07, Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
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".
Yes, agreed. Can we find another similar font?
Is it important to have a *similar* font?
We have 3 more fonts in drivers/video/fonts/, so they should be functional at least.
The license incompatibility is a more fatal problem. So, we should drop this font as soon as possible.
When _we_ find nice fonts, we can add them later. It is desirable, but not important.
Depends on who "we" is I suppose. Yes, I would love to see someone submit a new font that's GPLv2 only compatible.
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