[Debian-in-workers] Problems with a couple of fonts

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 18:11, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:57:58 +0530
> Soumyadip Modak <soumyadip@softhome.net> wrote:
> 
> > >   This font is marked with an FSType of 2 (Restricted
> > >   License).  That means it is not editable without the
> > >   permission of the legal owner.
> > >
> > >   Do you have such permission?
> > >
> > >   Yes         No
> > >
> > >And inside the editor, the Element -> Font Info -> TTF Values menu
> > >shows
> > >
> > >   Embeddable: Never Embed/No Editing
> > >
> > >That clearly makes the font non-free.
> 
> The site http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm provides two versions
> 
> 'For read-only version of the font in Win95,98,ME,2000 and XP, please 
> Click here. - http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/Pothana2k-95.zip'
> 
> 'For Read/write version of the font in Win2000 and XP, please Click
> here. '
> http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/Pothana2k.zip
> Please check the latter one.
> 
> > I'll need some guidance here. As an intermediate measure, I'm
> > removing the Gargi and Pothana fonts. But after that what am I
> > supposed to do? 
> > 
> > I downloaded the Indlinux-Hindi tarball, and I copied over a couple
> > of fonts from that tarball, over to the ttf-indic package. The
> > tarball claims that the Pothana2000 font is GPL, so I put that in
> > into the copyright file. Now it seems that the Telugu translation
> > project is quoting my copyright file as claiming Pothana2000 to be
> > GPL :) Can anybody give some pointers on what possible course of
> > action should I take ? 
> > 
> 
> As per an old mail thread
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3226604&forum_id=13737
>  Pothana was released by its author under GPL. Though what is missing
> is the website where it can be claimed as released under GPL.
> the authors homepage is inaccessible at the moment.
> http://members.nbci.com/kdesikachary/index.htm
> 
> I have sent out a mail requesting clarification on this to the author
> and person who announced it.
> Gargi issues can be fixed by Dr. Nagarjuna (cc'ed) who is maintainer
> of this font.

I need to know what clarifications are required regarding the Gargi font.
i will be glad to provide any clarifications.

Nagarjuna