[Bug 861531] Restore GPL licensing option

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861531

--- Comment #4 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> ---
Hi Luke,

While I take your point - and agree this restriction in the SIL OFL
license seems unnecessary (dunno if it was added by SIL as some
kind of protection against other profiting from their fonts?)
but as you say the "loophole" makes it pretty trivial to circumvent anyway.

But please realise that the actual old Liberation fonts licence
is rather more complicated than just GPL + licensing exception.
There are some additional terms unfortunately due to the original
arrangement made with Ascender when Red Hat bought the fonts
that have caused quite a lot of confusion in the past about the status of
Liberation license.  So to me OFL is still a big improvement
over the previous license situation.  Anyway the Liberation 2 rebase with
croscore fonts means that the license has to be OFL.

There is still some discussion ongoing about what to do with the old
Liberation fonts in Fedora.

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