Dear Nicholas, Thank you for your concern about the font licensing. We are concern about the issue and that is why we are no longer using GPL for fonts. Have a look at this: http://www.ekushey.org/index.php?blog/show/Rupalifontisupdatedwithhighqualityglyphs.html
So, if we update any font, that will be released under OFL. Is that enough? Omi On 6/27/07, Nicholas Shanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there. No mention of this is given on the website (needs amending!) but when I install the ekushey keyboard and font, it presents the LGPL. I was wondering if the authors of the fonts Rupali and Solaiman Lipi would be willing to re-license those fonts under the MIT license (aka 3-clause BSD license) or as public domain? The website does not give author names. The reason I ask is that I've been working on AAT fonts for Kannada and Telugu, and approached Apple about including them in Leopard, but the man I spoke with said they would not accept GPL or LGPL (which these fonts were). I would like to see the Bangla script in there too, but you would need to offer Apple MIT-licensed versions of the fonts at a minimum. Can this be done? It would allow Bengali support in the OS by default, which I'm sure is something you'd like to see too. - Nicholas.
