Apparently, passing `-DGEANT4_USE_FREETYPE=ON` to cmake causes two non-free fonts: a) arialbd.ttf and b) helvetica.ttf to be installed into `${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR}/fonts`, which seems to be contrary to what one may expect when enabling freetype font rendering. From `source/analysis/CMakeLists.txt`: ``` if (GEANT4_USE_FREETYPE) install(DIRECTORY fonts/ DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR}/fonts PATTERN ".svn" EXCLUDE ) endif() ``` and ``` > ls test/geant4.10.06.p02/source/analysis/fonts > arialbd.ttf helvetica.ttf ``` No licensing specific to these two font files are specified in the sources; therefore, assuming these are from the well-known Arial and Helvetica family respectively, they are not freely redistributable, in contrast with geant4's own license. This is a stumbling block for us to build and provide openSUSE packages from the default repositories, and we would deeply appreciate if you could resolve or clarify this licensing situation. Thanks. References: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica
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Hello, Thank you for pointing at this issue. We will investigate these licensing and let you know then. Best regards,
Thanks for your response.
Any progress on this? Thanks.
Hello, We have replaced these fonts with Google open source fonts in the development version which is going to be release in the end of this year. The new fonts are included together with their copyright/license files. We are now preparing also the update for the next patch to 10.6. Best regards,
Hi Ivana, That is fantastic news. Thanks for taking care of this!
The new Google open source fonts are now used in both 10.7 and 10.6.p03.