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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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