Re: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

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

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Guntupalli Karunakar (kar...@in...):
>
>> Since its pretty much like status quo wont change on above two, we
>> could best leave it at that.
>
>
> After a few days thinking to this, I think I can hereby mention that I
> don't entirely agree with Karunakar, here. This with all respect I owe
> him for his work and commitment.
>

Well I would admit that I didnt try hard enough..giving up with the
thought that it would be futile exercise.

>>From what I understand of the Indlinux group goals, the values of Fee
> Software are a great priority for the group members.
>
> It means that we should be committed to have softwrae that's as free
> as possible.
>
> In the case of these fonts, it is clear that some improvement is
> possible. At least, the "spirit" of the original license and what I
> understand from the authors' goals does not seem incompatible with
> possible improvement.
>
> So, I'd like to know who we should get in touch with to discuss about
> the license conditions and a possible way to have the missing bits
> added so that the font may be considered free.
>

The one way out I could think of is if their terms and conditions can also
specify clearly if the font can be modified (or derivative works can be
created). Discussing with the designer it seemed, derivative works are
discouraged, but modifications / bugs in font could be suggested.

So one way out - say publisher is considered upstream, then bugs/patches
for font could be made and sent upstream, to have it fixed and a new
release made. So in such case upstream, is holding control on font
release, and maintain it as official font release, I am not sure if this
still will make font 'free' .

> Of course, that will need to be very respectful of the initial work
> and to avoid what could appear as "bashing" the current license wordig
> (in short, not appear as a professor teachin a pupil what a license
> should be).
>
> I think I can do that (well, I'm sometimes slightly arrogant in some
> ways: I'm not French by error....but I can manage to slow this down).
>
> This is by doing exactly this that we finally were able to include
> Sun's Java to Debian, for instance..:-)
>
> So, what we did for Java can probably be done for the AksharYogini
> font.

point of contacts as from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com/
aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com
panravi at yahoo.com

Regards,
Karunakar