Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

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

Hi,
WIth liberty of top posting.. I would like to kill this thread.. if
at all the font is to be discussed, please shift to its functionality.

Since two things are clear:
 From publishers point of view the terms & conditions they have set,
stand straight forward enough in layman point of view.. -ie a font is
available, one can copy, redistribute it, embed it etc. as long as
they acknowledge the terms & conditions.

>From FOSS point of view, the terms and conditions give almost no clue
on if font can be modified, so becomes non-free and cannot be
packaged into official releases of distributions. Only consolation,
it might still go into non-free repositories for Debian.
For RPM based distros, perhaps if someone makes an RPM (and made
available from base font site), then might help users using those
distros.

Since its pretty much like status quo wont change on above two, we
could best leave it at that.

Regards,
Karunakar

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:27:10 +0530
शिरीष wrote:

> >
> > i doubt this release of font fits into any existing CC or like
> > licenses... it is not just (meaning appropriate)  to try to fit it
> > that way as well...
> >
> > i think, it is better to understand the spirit behind these
> > releases and have a grace to acknowledge those sentiments...
> >
> > there is only so much ink or paper while the philosophy or thought
> > behind it can take volumes that one may not be capable of reading
> > | writing easily...
> >
> 
> i do not speak on behalf of the publishers..  i am just speaking on
> the basis of the usefulness of the font and it's release which has
> been beneficial to me personally... { from a different perspective
> the real taste of the pudding is in eating it... though that can be
> arguable too }
> 
> from my testing it reveals that this font covers a larger spectrum
> of Devanagari while making it fit for use for Hindi and marathi
> texts.  i applied it to several text that i had an occasion to
> input and mostly it fits well... and addition of BOLD, ITalic and
> bold-italic release make it more print friendly which means going
> beyond just composing the texts...
> 
> Hope this does clears the air about technology and language
> composing without touching the  word called "lie-sense"
> 
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