[Debian-in-workers] License for Pothana2000 and Vemana fonts for Telugu

[Vasudev Kamath]

On 10:48 Sat 24 Dec     , Veeven wrote:
> 23 డిసెంబర్ 2011 11:19 సా న, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com> ఇలా
> రాసారు :
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > While preparing fonts-telu-extra I used fontforge to open up
> > Pothana2000 and Vemana fonts from ttf-telugu-fonts and I got a
> > question from fontforge that these fonts are *restricted* from
> > *editing* and do I have proper permission.
> >
> 
> Hi Vasudev,
> 
> I've just checked. I think we are using the wrong files in Debian. The
> maker of these fonts has separate files for packaging for Linux:
> 
> Pothana2000: http://kavya-nandanam.com/Pothana2k-Li.zip
> Vemana2000: http://kavya-nandanam.com/Vemana2k-Li.zip
> 
> From: http://kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm.old
> 
> I tried opening the .ttf files in these archives, fontforge did not throw
> any warning. Probably, we should use these ttf files than the ones we are
> currently using.


Ah I'll use these files in the new package. Thanks for pointing me to
right link.

> 
> 
> > Now I don't know to what extent we can support these fonts in Debian
> > but since they are only fonts for Telugu I want to know your
> > suggestions especially from Telugu community members
> >
> 
> These are not the only fonts for Telugu. We have lohit_te also.

True. I forgot about lohit fonts :). Lohit fonts will go into their
own packages.

Best Regards

-- 
Vasudev Kamath
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-in-workers/attachments/20111224/0e343f9e/attachment.pgp>