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"
