Re: OTF font tools

Sarath Menon said on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:19:25PM +0530,:

 > On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 12:28 pm, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:

Putting this  line when you are  not quoting anything  from my earlier
mail is not quite fair. You  are starting on a new subject, and please
create a new mail; simply  hitting the `reply' button and changing the
subject line is considered a very bad idea.
 
 > Well iam not quite sure of the status of the fonts available, but a
 > long time  back there  was a link  in the  gnu site for  some GPLed
 > malayalam  fonts, which later  was rectified  for the  inclusion of
 > matweb and the manorama web edition fonts.

Will you please clarify this statement of yours? especially the
`rectified ... manorama web edition fonts' part?

 > However as far as i recollect, the CDAC ones were open licensed.

Ah. You misunderstand the license  terms of CDAC fonts. The license is
not `free'.

 >  Maybe we  can borrow them if  the smc project has  been using them
 > without any problems.

CDAC fonts  are *not* distributed  by SMC. Please  correct me if  I am
wrong.  If you are refering  to the font files named nonstd-ml-0?.ttf;
these are  in fact  Akruti Fonts in  non-standard encodings  to enable
people view  HTML pages composed in non-standard  encodings using free
fonts. Such re-encoding  is not permitted by terms  of the CDAC fonts'
licenses. 

I think we should  be able to release the OTF Rachana  fonts in a week
or so. Work is progressing much faster than I expected ...

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