> The original source of the Koodak font is unknown, and the version this font > is based on, had a copyright phrase of "(c) 1999 Everybody!". You may freely > redistribute this font, but you may not change it in any way. Versions with > other licensing will become available from Sharif FarsiWeb, which you may > contact at http://www.farsiweb.info/ or mailto:fwpg at sharif dot edu. > > I think this is a problem!
Actually not for Arabeyes to distribute them, imho....but this explains why we don't distribute some of these fonts in Debian (Youssef, Adnène and I had a small exchange about this issue in the Debian Bug Tracking System). Then, it becomes a "political" choice from Arabeyes to decide whether distributing unmodifiable material is Good or Evil. Getting a clearer license and releasing all fonts under GPL seemed to be a goal of Farsiweb Inc..... Now that his founder (Behdad) has been hired by Red Hat, one may expect some work to happen on this issue. I just expect it to happen the right way (ie making the fonts free software) and not the wrong way like you can always expect from commercial distros vendors....:-) In the meantime, Debian has a shrinked ttf-farsiweb package with only Homa, Nazli and Titr...which is actually already Good as Nazli is used in our future graphical installer to render Persian AND Arabic..:-)
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