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[ilugd]: LinuxToday coverage of the Hindi font

Raju Mathur
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 23:50:06 -0800

Linux Today has run a story on the font developed by Avneesh and
Shivaas:

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-12-04-014-26-OS-SW-LL

India Lug-Dehli: Font Contest Winners Spurn MS, Go LGPL

Dec 4, 2002, 05 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1089 reads)

[ Thanks to Anand Singh Bisen for this link. ]

"Two school students, Avneesh Chhabra (15) and Shivaas Gulati (15)
designed a Hindi Devanagri font for an inter-school contest. They won
the event, received assurances from Microsoft that the Seattle-based
company may be interested in licensing the fonts from them, and then,
on 25 November 2002, decided nevertheless to publish the fonts under
the freedom-based Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL)..."

<snip>

Apart from the funky spelling of Delhi and the fact that the `Complete
story' link at the bottom of the page not working, it's great
coverage.  Expect lots of downloads.

Regards,

-- Raju
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                      It is the mind that moves

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