[Debian-in-workers] Re: [Indlinux-telugu] Pothana2000 under the GPL!!!

[Guntupalli Karunakar]

Hi, 
 This is pretty old, but recently some questions have been asked as to
the authorized source, where it says this font is released under GPL,
and download from this so-so link. I have tried tracking down Mr.
Desikachary's website but it seems to be down.
http://members.nbci.com/kdesikachary/index.htm

Right now we have been taking the font from
http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm, where it doest say its
released under GPL (Its anyway just a website using and promoting the
font , and not an official source).

Could you or Mr Desikachary clarify on this?

Regards,
Karunakar

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:47:39 +0530
Chandra Kanth Chereddi <kanth@gmx.net> wrote:

> This is a great advantage to telugu and Linux, and the opensource in
> general.
> 
> A Dassera Gift probably    ;-).
> 
> Cheers,
> CCK./
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:52:28 -0500
> From: Krishna Desikachary <Krishna_Desikachary@newflyer.com>
> To: 'Chandra Kanth Chereddi' <kanth@gmx.net>
> Subject: RE: Hi
> 
> 
> I have recently revised the Pothana2000 font and placed under GPL.
> The main changes that were made are:
> a) The font was scaled by 2.6 times (area wise) to make it
> compatible with Times New Roman at the same pt size
> b) The char contours were re-optimized as also  internal structurs,
> redcing the font file size to 177kb from 259kb
> c) Some bugs in rendering very complex combinations were fixed.
> 
> regards,
> Desikachary
> 

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