Embedding SIL fonts in GPL binary (dragonfly-reverb in focal NEW)
Christopher James Halse Rogers
christopher.halse.rogers at canonical.com
Sun Mar 29 23:05:37 UTC 2020
Hey all!
I was reviewing dragonfly-reverb from the focal NEW queue and I ran
into a licensing question I'm not sure the answer to.
dragonfly-reverb includes a NotoSans_Regular.ttf.cpp file, (apparently;
this is not done at build-time) generated by xxd from the SIL-licensed
NotoSans_Regular.ttf file. It is unclear to me whether this is kosher
in a GPL-licensed binary, so I thought I'd ask. (It would clearly be
fine as a file shipped along side, I'm just unsure about the embedding)
Other than the license issue the package appears ok; because audio
upstreams are weird it does a bunch of other xxd-embedding of resources
(also not at build time :/), but it ships the source images in the
source tarball so I wasn't going to block on that.
Thoughts?
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