Bug#385990: (forw) Bug#385990: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#385990: ttf-malayalam-fonts: Add another font to the package

[Christian Perrier]

(trying to solve an issue in Debian with fonts for the Malayalam
language, one of the official languages in India. This language uses
its own script. Debian Installer is now translated in Malayalam but we
have problems to display Malayalam in D-I due to #403404)

Please keep at least myself CC'ed to answers...this mail is CC'ed to
several people, some being "upstream" for one font we consider to use)

Quoting Mahesh T. Pai (paivakil at gmail.com):
> Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
> Version: 1:0.4.7.1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Anjali Old Lipi font is a good replacement for RacOtf.ttf. Last time I
> heard of it, somebody representing the upstream had asked the creator
> of Anjali Old Lipi font to desist from fixing some encoding bugs in
> RacOtf.ttf. The result of this demand was creation of the Anjali Old
> Lipi font.
> 
> Whether you remove RacOtf or not, Anjali is a good font,
> typographically.
> 
> The font is available from
> http://indulekha.com/AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf (Note:- that is NOT the
> upstream site).

I could include it in a next NMU of ttf-indic-fonts, aimed at fixing
#403404, caused by errors in the Rachana font.

My conclusion currently, about Malayalam fonts is:

-The Rachana font (Racotf04) could have potential licensing
 issues. See http://bugs.debia.org/385990 for background
-It definitely has technical issues
-Anjali Old Lipi is a suitable replacement font according to Malayalam
 speakers

However, the licensing of that font is pretty scarce. All what we have
is:

Credit to Kevin & Siji, 2004. No rights reserved.

Upstream for this font seems to be http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net
where the license is said to be GPL.

debian-legal people, do you have any advice about this being enough to
be considered "free" ?


People from the varamomzhi project on SourceForge, could you clarify
the license for the Anjali Old Lipi font ?

Many thanks in advance for all your answers. 


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