[U-Boot] Question about GPL v3 font

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:13 AM Tom Rini <trini at 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 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?

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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> Tom
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Masahiro Yamada