[Debian-in-workers] Re: Fwd: debian-in-workers@lists.alioth.debian.org; pravi.a@gmail.com; anivar@hackemail.com; vimaljoseph@gmail.com

[Vivek Varghese Cherian]

On 12/19/06, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hussain KH a écrit :
> > Respected Christian Perrier
> >
> > I'm here by forwarding the mail I sent to Mr. Saumya Pradeep regarding
> > the inclusion of Rachana font in the Debian distribution. As a reply I
> > received mail from Saumya that he is now fully convinced of the
> > Technical and historical importance of Rachana font as well its
> > GNU-GPL status.
> >
> > As I put in the following mail I would like to repeat "*we here by
> > declare that any one can use/modify/distribute it under GNU GPL."*
> > *
> > *Please go through the attached article by Dr. Mammen Chundamannil
> > that fully explains our stands and aspirations towards free software
> > movement and GNU-GPL
> >
> > Expecting necessary actions to be taken in order to make use of
> > Rachana font in the Malayalam localisation of Debian,
> >
> > Thanking in anticipation
> >
> > Yours faithfully
> >
> > Hussain KH
> > (Rachana Font Designer and Project Co-ordinator)
> >
> >
>
> OK. That seems to definitely clarify the situation, thanks for taking
> time to get and write the answer.
>
> Indeed, I already included the new Rachana_w01.otf font in the
> ttf-malayalam-fonts package on behalf of Soumyadip, the real maintainer
> of the package.
>
> One last step that would be interesting is getting a reliable location
> for new releases downloads so that the maintainer(s) of the package
> which includes these fonts can update them regularly as long as they're
> enhanced.
>
>
>

Mr. Hussain KH

I most humbly request that you put up the latest updated  version of the
fonts at the upstream location http://www.rachanamalayalam.org/ , which I
gather from the indic at unicode.org list as the official site of the Rachana
Akshara Kala Vedi.


-- 
Vivek Varghese Cherian
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