[PATCH 33/33] video: Drop the Nimbus font

[Jonathan Gray]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 12:06:24PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> There is some concern that this font may be GPLv3 rather than GPLv2. This
> is is not desirable in U-Boot. Replace it with Roboto which has an Apache
> license.
> 
> See discussion here:
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg335913.html

> diff --git a/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig
> index c692fa9602..1b8b59311e 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/fonts/Kconfig
> @@ -4,19 +4,19 @@
>  
>  menu "TrueType Fonts"
>  
> -config CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_NIMBUS
> -	bool "Nimbus Sans Regular"
> +config CONSOLE_TRUETYPE_ROBOTO
> +	bool "Roboto 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
> +	  Roboto was created in 2011 by Christian Robertson at Google, and
> +	  received a significant redesign in 2014. It is a sans-serif grotesque,
> +	  which is the same classification as Helvetica and Akzidenz-Grotesk.
> +	  Roboto is the default font on the Android mobile phone operating
> +	  system.
> +	  From: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/roboto
> +	  License: Apache 2.0
> +	  https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2

"Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2"