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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