[U-Boot] Question about GPL v3 font

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 11:07, Tom Rini <trini at 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?

Regards,
Simon