| From b757e6842f9631757f0d1a6b3833aabffa9ffeee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> |
| 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 <sbrabec@suse.com> |
| 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 |
| <ncic@padis.gn.apc.org> or <ncic@telecom.net.et> 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 <legion@kernel.org> |
| |
| Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/legionus/kbd/commit/b757e6842f9631757f0d1a6b3833aabffa9ffeee] |
| |
| [do_configure prepend added to remove binary files] |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com> |
| --- |
| 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 |
| - <ncic@padis.gn.apc.org> or <ncic@telecom.net.et> and may be redistributed |
| - for non-commercial use under Unix environments only. |
| - |
| Goha and GohaClassic: |
| Donated by Yitna Firdyiwek <ybf2u@virgina.edu> of GohaTibeb Associates |
| and may be redistributed without restriction under the GNU GPL 2.0. |
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| 2.30.2 |
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