Re: OTF font tools

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On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 9:40 pm, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> 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.
Oops im sorry, when the mail was too long i had trimmed some parts. Sorry for 
the inconvenience caused.
>
>  > 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?
The web edition fonts were originally distributed as part of the font package. 
They were later removed. As i had said, i had looked up these fonts more than 
a year ago. Moreover i had only glanced through the license terms. Which was 
why i had stated that i was not sure.
>  > 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'.
Im sorry. Again that was just my hunch. Which was why i had said that i have 
to recheck before confirming. I confirm that the CDAC ones were not 
distributed by smc. 
>  >  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.
Nope. But they had a mention somewhere in fsf's site.
> 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 ...
Congrats. That will leave us with a firm base to start with. I guess if there 
is good community work, ml_IN will have a place before KDE 3.3 comes up.
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