[U-Boot] Question about GPL v3 font

[Tom Rini]

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".

-- 
Tom
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