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Boxable jar may not be Apache 2 licensed
The boxable readme says that Boxable is Apache 2 licensed, however I've noticed that the jar file distributed in maven central (https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/github/dhorions/boxable/1.6/boxable-1.6.jar) contains some font files that are not Apache licensed.
The fonts directory contains a README file which says "Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License". My layman's understand of GPL is that if you distribute GPL code/binaries as part of your application/library, then your whole application/library effectively becomes GPL. If I'm right about that, I expect not many people would spot this and would assume that the jar is licensed under Apache 2 as noted in the boxable readme.
In theory I suppose it's possible for the boxable source code to be Apache licensed and for the distributed jar file to be GPL licensed, but I think the readme and poms need to make this clear. I also suspect that this is not the intention.
@johnmanko that doesn't really resolve the issue that the jar cannot legally be licensed under Apache 2, it just adds the Apache 2 label to the jar in violation of FreeFont's licensing terms as laid out here
@hauntingEcho What would the solution be? Licensing is not something I'm well informed on. @dhorions needs to weigh in on this, as ultimately he owns this project.
either this project needs to be licensed under GPLv3, or the FreeFont files need to be removed from the repo
@hauntingEcho Can't this project be duel licensed, then? That should solve everything.
Keeping the individual code files themselves Apache2 licensed should be just fine, but anything that includes the FreeFont files (such as the jar, or the repo as a whole at the moment) would have to be GPLv3 licensed. I very strongly recommend reading the whole license file. A primary goal of the GPL is preventing downstream projects from stripping off its copyleft protections.
Note that I'm not a lawyer, just had run into questions on this library's license at a previous job (per #155)
@hauntingEcho Thank you for your input. I'll take a look at that this weekend. It will get fixed.