Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-14 Thread C Bobroff
...). Now both MS Windows and Red Hat Linux ship with those fonts. Oh, so THAT'S what the plan was. Very nice! -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-11 Thread C Bobroff
In countries like Iran where the availability of source can be a great teaching resource to students in schools and universities, it does a lot more good than perceived harm. Did you see this video? http://www.science-arts.org/src/story/presentations/video/all.ram It's old (2001) but it

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-09 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 23:28, C Bobroff wrote: In this case, I just don't want to think about the people who will download the new Koodak for free and sell it for a nice profit. Not fair to the Farsiweb team nor the person who first made Koodak. But fair if, say, the developers allow it to

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-09 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:43, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: Can someone produce a BDF version? The question is: why do you need one? roozbeh ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-08 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:45, C Bobroff wrote: There is already a font called Koodak. Won't users (and their computers) have a problem when they THINK they are seeing this font but it's really the old one? It won't occur to them to download the new one. The point is, this is exactly just *that*

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-08 Thread C Bobroff
BSD style licenses all allow you to exploit the system commercially; most people, however, choose to contribute their work back to the community. I see. That's nice if it works. I didn't see a link from the index page at www.farsiweb.info to the Koodak font. It might be convient to have one.

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-08 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I see. That's nice if it works. It works; witness: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, XWindows, Apache, Cygwin, Perl, MySQL, to name a few. To be entirely accurate some of the above are GPL, which eventhough puts no restrictions on commercial exploitation, requires the derived work to be GPL also.

Re: [PersianComputing] Koodak font: alpha release

2003-08-08 Thread C Bobroff
The point is, this is exactly just *that* Koodak, but only improved with regard to Unicode compatiblity. ok, I guess that is good to keep the exact name. Too bad the person who drew the original outlines remains a mystery. As for user (and computer ;)) education, that's not our expertise.