[U-Boot] Question about GPL v3 font

[Tom Rini]

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 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?

Depends on who "we" is I suppose.  Yes, I would love to see someone
submit a new font that's GPLv2 only compatible.

-- 
Tom
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