From b757e6842f9631757f0d1a6b3833aabffa9ffeee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Gladkov Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:38:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove non-free Agafari fonts Based on legal analysis, we are removing non-free fonts for now. If we can change the license of these fonts, we will return them back. From: Stanislav Brabec Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:47:54 +0100 Subject: kbd: Legal problems of Agafari fonts The data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic contains a notice: Agafari: Donated by the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission or and may be redistributed for non-commercial use under Unix environments only. According to our legal review, it makes impossible to distribute these fonts as part of any commercial products, and even makes it impossible to distribute kbd sources as part of any commercial product services. Additionally, it makes the whole kbd package incompatible with GPL, so the COPYING file (created during build of the tarball) cannot declare GPL version 2. It also violates section 6 of GPL (no further restrictions). That is why several GNU/Linux distributions exclude Agafari from the release. To be on a safe side, SUSE even decided to repack any source tarballs before putting it to their servers. This was probably reported to the former kbd maintainer about 20 years ago, but nothing changed over years. That is why I recommend removing Agafari fonts and removing the reference to them from README.Ethiopic. Alternatively, you can ask the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission for re-licensing. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/legionus/kbd/commit/b757e6842f9631757f0d1a6b3833aabffa9ffeee] [do_configure prepend added to remove binary files] Signed-off-by: Peter Marko --- data/consolefonts/Agafari-12.psfu | Bin 7989 -> 0 bytes data/consolefonts/Agafari-14.psfu | Bin 9013 -> 0 bytes data/consolefonts/Agafari-16.psfu | Bin 10037 -> 0 bytes data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic | 5 ----- 4 files changed, 5 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 data/consolefonts/Agafari-12.psfu delete mode 100644 data/consolefonts/Agafari-14.psfu delete mode 100644 data/consolefonts/Agafari-16.psfu diff --git a/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic b/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic index 7502722..2810797 100644 --- a/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic +++ b/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic @@ -14,11 +14,6 @@ Ethiopic fonts: restrictions below: -Agafari: - Donated by the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission - or and may be redistributed - for non-commercial use under Unix environments only. - Goha and GohaClassic: Donated by Yitna Firdyiwek of GohaTibeb Associates and may be redistributed without restriction under the GNU GPL 2.0. -- 2.30.2