[Debian-in-workers] Bug#522490: Bug#522490: [Indlinux-group] AksharYogini font family released

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Quoting Guntupalli Karunakar (karunakar at indlinux.org):
>
>> I had met with font publishers again, their position is clear to keep
>> the status as is, with no change in terms and conditions. So I guess
>> font will remain as non-free for Debian.
>
>
> Not remain, but become. The font is currently distributed in Debian
> main....and should not.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522490
>
> To debian-in-workers: AksharYogini font is not "likely to be non
> free". It *is* non free. Karunakar words are very clear about this.
>
> The patch is trivial: drop it from ttf-indic-fonts and eventually
> create a ttf-indic-fonts-nonfree source package with it included.
>
> Again, something has to be done as this release critical bug is likely
> to make the entire ttf-indic-fonts package dropped from Debian main,
> which is certainly not what we want.
>

As I finally have some time again I was getting ready to write a nice 
letter explaining why it is really in the designers best interests to make 
their font truly free software but it looks like it's going to be 
futile.

ttf-indic-fonts-nonfree it is.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org>