Question about GPL v3 font

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 21:51, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Tom,
>
> In message <20190726170700.GQ20116 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> >
> > >           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 Ari=
> > al.
> > >           (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".
>
> Should we not first make sure the license is really GPLv3?
>
> At the moment the URL https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/nimbus-sans-l
> does not work.  But there are other sources which suggest that this
> font might actually be GPLv2 instead, see for example "Licensing" at
> https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/nimbus-sans-l
>
> Or see https://www.1001fonts.com/nimbus-sans-l-font.html

Yes I see that now. I am not actually sure of the license but it is
certainly possible it could be GPLv2. Is there a way to find the
authoritative source?

I will send a patch to replace this with roboto, which seems to be
clearly licensed.

Regards,
Simon