[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113532] Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113532

--- Comment #5 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #4)
> (In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #3)
> > The fonts were not accompanied by a LICENSE file, only a copyright notice
> > inside the fonts referring to GPL without specifying a license version. If
> > they were still distributed by KACST hopefully a LICENSE file would be
> > present or some one would answer queries about the license (again, my
> > attempts to clarify this went nowhere).
> 
> It is mentioned in the font description that "KACST holds the copyright of
> the included Arabic font which is donated under GPL by KACST", so as they
> didnt mention which version of the GPL, we shouldn't distribute it?

IANAL, but there is no single GPL license, there is version 1, 2 or 3 and they
are not compatible so you need to know the exact version to know if you can
distribute it and whether it is compatible with LibreOffice license or not.

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