[Indic-computing-users] Re: School Students LGPL devanagri fonts - Cross-posted

[Raju M. <ra...@li...>]

>>>>> "LL" == linuxlingam  <lin...@bh...> writes:

    LL> [Cross-Posted ] 26 NOV 2002, NEW DELHI.

    LL> Two school students, Avneesh Chhabra (15) and Shivaas Gulati
    LL> (15) designed a Hindi Devanagri font for an inter-school
    LL> contest. They won the event, received assurances from
    LL> Microsoft that the Seattle-based company may be interested in
    LL> licensing the fonts from them, and then, on 25 November 2002,
    LL> decided nevertheless to publish the fonts under the
    LL> freedom-based Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL).

    LL> Wow!

    LL> The fonts will be published on the Indian Linux User Group
    LL> Delhi website, www.ilugd.org, and people across the world are
    LL> free to download, to use, and to modify, and to modify the
    LL> fonts as they feel fit, under the LGPL license (www.gnu.org
    LL> for more info.)

Make that http://www.linux-delhi.org/ please.

Three cheers for the students, their parents and school and whoever
planted the seed of freedom into their minds!

-- Raju

    LL> [snip]

-- 
Raju Mathur               ra...@ka...      http://kandalaya.org/
                      It is the mind that moves