From: Frank Gevaerts <frank_at_gevaerts.be>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 22:17:03 +0100

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 09:24:07PM +0300, Stayvoid wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just want to tell you that Rockbox ships non-free fonts with it
> (e.g. Helvetica).
> Please remove those.

Have you even *considered* checking this claim? It's obviously false.
For the record, the fonts in our source are in bdf format, which is a
readable ascii format. In case of the Helvetica fonts, those files have
a clear license embedded.

> P.S. Are there any other non-free components? For example, themes.

Unfortunately no part of rockbox is less non-free than the Helvetica
font.

Frank

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Received on 2012-03-04