[Freebangfont-devel] Licensing glyphs

[Robin Upton]

If you look at it in terms of time and effort, quite a lot. On the other
hand, however, it costs whatever it costs. :)

The best bet would probably be makers of a defunct typing system, who might
be persuaded to let their fonts go for very little because of
publicity/altruistic reasons, or perhaps even to upset the competition.
There are a lot of different ways to market old software - check out
'digitalBangla.org' for one of the more imaginative. These guys say they
want to promote use of Bangla on computers, so if properly approached, they
might be forthcoming. My advice is, don't wave bucks around until you've
checked out other options first!

Robin

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 08 February 2003 19:05
To: Free Bangla Font Development
Subject: RE: [Freebangfont-devel] Best looking glyphs


Any readme/license files around??
Also, any idea how much it would cost to buy a particular font so that
we can re-release it under the GPL??
-sdg-

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 00:23, Kaushik Ghose wrote:
> Hiya,
> quick question.
> Is it illegal to distribute the adarshalipi fonts with the Lekho distro ?
> -kg
>
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Robin Upton wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I'm convinced. It looks like Ekushey font is made up of
proprietary
> > glyphs:(
> > Thanks for pointing this out, Deepayan. The glyphs came from a font
enttiled
> > 'Bangla Qaran' that carried the name of Sayed Md. Rasel. He gave me
> > permission to
> > use them for Ekushey and I didn't enquire further. More fool me.
> >
> > Robin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > Behalf Of Deepayan Sarkar
> > Sent: 07 February 2003 21:58
> > To: Free Bangla Font Development
> > Subject: Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Best looking glyphs
> >
> >
> > On Friday 07 February 2003 02:35 pm, Kaushik Ghose wrote:
> > > the fonts that "ekushey" uses are kinda nice.
> > > they are higher ascii TTF
> >
> > Almost identical to adarshalipi (definitely same origin). I have a
pfaedit
> > screenshot with the two superposed at
> >
> > http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/R/fntcmp.jpg
> >
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