[Ilugc] [Ilugc.tamil] why not much free Tamil fonts?
- From: arun289@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Venkataswamy)
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:17:30 +0530
2012/3/20 "?. ???? ???????" <amachu at amachu.net>
Seeing him submitting to now Governor of Tamilnadu, to stop font piracy,
there.
Can you convince him to release them under OFL
http://www.anufonts.com/tamil.html
Nope. Highly unlikely. His primary business is fonts. Piracy is killing his
business. Releasing a few fonts for Linux will only be a philanthropic move
for him. Linux is irrelevant to him till DTP operators, News houses and
Television channels moves to Linux. I had convinced him 2 years back to
release a small bunch of high quality fonts for the Linux. He had agreed,
but I did not follow up on that.
But he sure will help someone who wants to make fonts for Linux non
commercially.
Commercial Note [Sorry for the non - free nature of this, just wanted to
help someone who might be interested]:
For anybody interested - he was seriously impressed when I told him you
could make a Linux distribution for DTP operators with the fonts packaged
along with it. The catch is - the fonts need to be protected from copying.
If anybody has got a solution, he will be willing to pay handsomely.
Regards,
Arun
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