Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:16:16 +0200
Christian Perrier wrote:

> Quoting Rahul Bhalerao (rah...@ya...):
> 
> > Where are the 4 freedoms that Free Software ensures explicitly
> > stated? Especially, freedom to modify and/or fork are not present
> > at all.
> 
> 
> Yes. This is precisely what was pointed in debian-legal in answer to
> my request there.
> 
> The license is not bad per se and, probably, the author's intent is
> to make it really free....but the wording is not in line with
> this. This is what often happens when people try to invent their own
> licenses while there are dozens of these floating around that have
> received enough attention and care to fit everybody's needs....
> 
> As of now, I would retain the lack of mention for "freedom for
> modify" as the major blocker for that font set to be considered
> Free.
> 

Gist of some earlier discussions with designer was that the font is
to be treated as work of art, so like in a painting, it be credited
to the painter, while replicas (copies) could be made, font design is
not to be modified. Bugs in font could be reported back to designer
for fixing.

Karunakar

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