[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#703456: Please add Nafees Nastaleeq

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

2014-06-09 07:16, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> From our package naming policy, the source package name should be
> something like fonts-crulp-nafeesnastaleeq (we should probably then
> rename the existign fonts-nafees package to fonts-crulp-nafeeswebnaskh.

It looks like CRULP is CLE nowadays => fonts-cle-nafeesnastaleeq

2014-06-09 16:43, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> BTW, if you haven't noticed yet, there are significant issues with the
> licensing of this font that still need fixing (it's sadly a non-standard
> mishmash of licenses with little coherence, legal validity or practical
> use cases:
> http://www.cle.org.pk/software/license/Nafees_Nastaleeq_License.html So
> I would expect our ftpmasters to seriously frown on this and reject
> it!).

Well, please let me remind of the fact that another font with the very
same license is packaged in fonts-nafees and has been in the Debian
archive for 8 years. Consequently it would be pretty inconsistent to
reject a request to add Nafees Nastaleeq, wouldn't it?

There are other Nastaleeq fonts. For instance, from the discussion at
the related Ubuntu bug I understand that some Urdu users would prefer
Jameel Noori Nastaleeq over Nafees Nastaleeq.

http://www.ffonts.net/Jameel-Noori-Nastaleeq.font

The ttf files included in the zip that can be downloaded from there have
this embedded copyright notice:

"This Font Is Free Of Charge For Urdu Lovers"

Suppose that wouldn't make the ftpmasters feel more comfortable. ;)

I get the impression that the FOSS concept isn't well established in
Pakistan. Let's not be too picky about licenses while trying to change that.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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