<div>As far as I remember, I received a mail from the original developers of RacOtf who claim it is GPL-ed. I'll hunt up the mail and forward it. I plan to include it in the next big upgrade of ttf-indic-fonts (I'm sorry I can't do it right now, since my home DSL is down). If Christian does decide to do an NMU to include Anjali Old Lipi, that'll be great :)
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<div>Sorry for top posting, but I included a couple of people who I feel should be kept in the loop.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christian Perrier</b> <<a href="mailto:bubulle@debian.org">bubulle@debian.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">(trying to solve an issue in Debian with fonts for the Malayalam<br>language, one of the official languages in India. This language uses
<br>its own script. Debian Installer is now translated in Malayalam but we<br>have problems to display Malayalam in D-I due to #403404)<br><br>Please keep at least myself CC'ed to answers...this mail is CC'ed to<br>
several people, some being "upstream" for one font we consider to use)<br><br>Quoting Mahesh T. Pai (<a href="mailto:paivakil@gmail.com">paivakil@gmail.com</a>):<br>> Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts<br>> Version: 1:
<a href="http://0.4.7.1">0.4.7.1</a><br>> Severity: wishlist<br>><br>><br>> Anjali Old Lipi font is a good replacement for RacOtf.ttf. Last time I<br>> heard of it, somebody representing the upstream had asked the creator
<br>> of Anjali Old Lipi font to desist from fixing some encoding bugs in<br>> RacOtf.ttf. The result of this demand was creation of the Anjali Old<br>> Lipi font.<br>><br>> Whether you remove RacOtf or not, Anjali is a good font,
<br>> typographically.<br>><br>> The font is available from<br>> <a href="http://indulekha.com/AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf">http://indulekha.com/AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf</a> (Note:- that is NOT the<br>> upstream site).
<br><br>I could include it in a next NMU of ttf-indic-fonts, aimed at fixing<br>#403404, caused by errors in the Rachana font.<br><br>My conclusion currently, about Malayalam fonts is:<br><br>-The Rachana font (Racotf04) could have potential licensing
<br>issues. See <a href="http://bugs.debia.org/385990">http://bugs.debia.org/385990</a> for background<br>-It definitely has technical issues<br>-Anjali Old Lipi is a suitable replacement font according to Malayalam<br>speakers
<br><br>However, the licensing of that font is pretty scarce. All what we have<br>is:<br><br>Credit to Kevin & Siji, 2004. No rights reserved.<br><br>Upstream for this font seems to be <a href="http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net">
http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net</a><br>where the license is said to be GPL.<br><br>debian-legal people, do you have any advice about this being enough to<br>be considered "free"?<br><br><br>People from the varamomzhi project on SourceForge, could you clarify
<br>the license for the Anjali Old Lipi font?<br><br>Many thanks in advance for all your answers.<br><br><br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iD8DBQFFhZEW1OXtrMAUPS0RAuuUAJ4wbqaey4zHVh7mzJ8M/7vSVp+0dACgiggB
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