Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

[Sudhanwa J. <sud...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have been reading this thread for quite some time and I think it is
time to comment on it now.

Some points that I noticed:
1. people comment on the mail/s directly without even visiting the
referred site and reading the contents.

2. If the first mail gave the correct URL
(http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com), at least some further mails would
have avoided.

3. In the copyright notice within the font, it clearly says: Usage of
this font "Aksharyogini" is subject to the terms and conditions
mentioned on the website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com. You can
read this using gnome-font-viewer.K font viewer does not show that.
All the debian font related packages I saw, everywhere the terms and
conditions/licenses is mentioned under the copyright file section.

4. The terms and conditions mentioned are very simple, clear and
straight forward for any common user. People usually run away if they
see something called "license". Unfortunately, in the FOSS world, it
is (probably) the most sacred word.

5. I was under the impression that Debian is THE FREE (as in FOSS)
distro. I did some digging and to my surprise, found that it has
non-free components also. (could be very less but it is there.) eg.
Package: t1-xfree86-nonfree (4.2.1-3) [non-free] that is mentioned
here: http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/t1-xfree86-nonfree

6. As such, if non-free components are also allowed in Debian, why
people are talking as if this font is kind of "untouchable"

7. People are "free" to select/deselect the fonts from Debian  or any
other distro.

Apart from the above,

We (my family) believe that this is the only font released (at least
in India. Unaware about other countries) in the name of an author.

3500 downloads is more than what we expected and the basic purpose of
releasing the font is being served. Getting it in Debian has helped in
this. Thanks to the FOSS community for the same.


Thanks and regards,
-Sudhanwa

/me looking forward to digging in Fedora and others..

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