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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>
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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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