Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

[Mahesh T. P. <pai...@ya...>]

प्रविण सातपुते  said on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 04:01:23PM +0530,:



 > > In which case, asking them to put up a clear license would help.

Oh. Duh. I finally persuaded myself to go to the site, and teh license
is clear - 

<BEGINQUOTE>

You are encouraged to freely distribute the font through your websites or other media,
provided you mention the base URL for the font availability (http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com)
and also the terms and conditions given below.

The font is free to use, free to share, free to distribute subject to the terms and conditions mentioned below.

1. The user acknowledges that this font is released in the memory of Yogini Joglekar

2. The user acknoledges the efforts and the creative work of the font creator
Mr. Ravi Pande (contact email id panravi at yahoo.com )

3. THE FONT IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR OWNERS OR PERSONS/ORGANISATIONS
RELATED TO THIS FONT AND/OR THIS WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR
ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITIES. 

</ENDQUTOE>

 > In these font License field is not available, one can insert it in
 > using Fontforge, Elements -> Font Info -> TTFnames releasing one
 > separate file naming License info will help lot

My question was:- "have the (original) authors done this?

I guess this is not easy, since the license itself has no name. 

Still, it is Free, but with a (old style) BSD-ish but non-onerous
publicity clause. People may disagree about the non-onerousness
though. But that would be nitpicking. 

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