Patrick Williams | 2f814a6 | 2024-04-16 16:28:03 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | From b757e6842f9631757f0d1a6b3833aabffa9ffeee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| 2 | From: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> |
| 3 | Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:38:37 +0100 |
| 4 | Subject: [PATCH] Remove non-free Agafari fonts |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Based on legal analysis, we are removing non-free fonts for now. If we |
| 7 | can change the license of these fonts, we will return them back. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.com> |
| 10 | Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:47:54 +0100 |
| 11 | Subject: kbd: Legal problems of Agafari fonts |
| 12 | |
| 13 | The data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic contains a notice: |
| 14 | Agafari: |
| 15 | Donated by the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission |
| 16 | <ncic@padis.gn.apc.org> or <ncic@telecom.net.et> and may be redistributed |
| 17 | for non-commercial use under Unix environments only. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | According to our legal review, it makes impossible to distribute these |
| 20 | fonts as part of any commercial products, and even makes it impossible to |
| 21 | distribute kbd sources as part of any commercial product services. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Additionally, it makes the whole kbd package incompatible with GPL, so the |
| 24 | COPYING file (created during build of the tarball) cannot declare GPL |
| 25 | version 2. It also violates section 6 of GPL (no further restrictions). |
| 26 | |
| 27 | That is why several GNU/Linux distributions exclude Agafari from the |
| 28 | release. To be on a safe side, SUSE even decided to repack any source |
| 29 | tarballs before putting it to their servers. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | This was probably reported to the former kbd maintainer about 20 years ago, |
| 32 | but nothing changed over years. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | That is why I recommend removing Agafari fonts and removing the reference |
| 35 | to them from README.Ethiopic. Alternatively, you can ask the Ethiopian |
| 36 | Science and Technology Commission for re-licensing. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/legionus/kbd/commit/b757e6842f9631757f0d1a6b3833aabffa9ffeee] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [do_configure prepend added to remove binary files] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com> |
| 45 | --- |
| 46 | data/consolefonts/Agafari-12.psfu | Bin 7989 -> 0 bytes |
| 47 | data/consolefonts/Agafari-14.psfu | Bin 9013 -> 0 bytes |
| 48 | data/consolefonts/Agafari-16.psfu | Bin 10037 -> 0 bytes |
| 49 | data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic | 5 ----- |
| 50 | 4 files changed, 5 deletions(-) |
| 51 | delete mode 100644 data/consolefonts/Agafari-12.psfu |
| 52 | delete mode 100644 data/consolefonts/Agafari-14.psfu |
| 53 | delete mode 100644 data/consolefonts/Agafari-16.psfu |
| 54 | |
| 55 | diff --git a/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic b/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic |
| 56 | index 7502722..2810797 100644 |
| 57 | --- a/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic |
| 58 | +++ b/data/consolefonts/README.Ethiopic |
| 59 | @@ -14,11 +14,6 @@ Ethiopic fonts: |
| 60 | restrictions below: |
| 61 | |
| 62 | |
| 63 | -Agafari: |
| 64 | - Donated by the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission |
| 65 | - <ncic@padis.gn.apc.org> or <ncic@telecom.net.et> and may be redistributed |
| 66 | - for non-commercial use under Unix environments only. |
| 67 | - |
| 68 | Goha and GohaClassic: |
| 69 | Donated by Yitna Firdyiwek <ybf2u@virgina.edu> of GohaTibeb Associates |
| 70 | and may be redistributed without restriction under the GNU GPL 2.0. |
| 71 | -- |
| 72 | 2.30.2 |
| 73 | |