https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150481
--- Comment #20 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to گیلان from comment #18) > I believe there are generally different aesthetics tastes among Arabic and > Farsi users. Ok, then that's settled! Different defaults. Still, I think we'll keep the discussion here rather than opening a separate bug. > And of course, the choice of font also depends on the case of > usage so let's assume it's a simple public-intended book or a formal letter. > In that case a Farsi user opinion would probably be: > > Noto Naskh Arabic: acceptable. > Noto Kufi Arabic: Not formal at all. > Amiri and KacstOffice: totally Arabic > KacstBook: acceptable * By "totally Arabic" I'm guessing you mean "not acceptable as the default for Farsi?" * Note we need a combination of header font and body font, so please either refer to pairs, or say "acceptable for the body font/header font/both". * We've noticed that some of these are not usable because of licensing issues (and being abandoned). We need fonts which are free to use and distribute. > For Farsi, I suggest IRTitr for header and IRLotus or IRNazanin for body. > > ... > > These 3 are modified (not created from scratch) fonts from a government > project in Iran to provide a free series of standard Farsi fonts for > personal and commercial use. Both the government Institute and the private > sector contractor are now disbanded and currently it is not possible to > contact the umbrella state agency (http://majazi.ir) to ask about the > license. When you say "modified", do you mean the government made the modification, or modifications of what the government had created initially? In the latter case, who made the modifications? Also - is there an official download location for these fonts? If there are, that website may be enough in terms of license, even possibly via rights implicit in it being available for download. IANAL (I am not a lawyer) though, so I'm not sure. > By the way, Iran does not recognize international copyright so I > reckon you can use them with no worries. That's commendable, I think; but: 1. That does not necessarily mean that it waives copyrights in the other direction, i.e. agrees to international distribution of works created in Iran; and of course - LO is considered as distribution within Iran itself, where the copyright issue is national rather than international. At the very least we would need some clarification on this matter. 2. We also need to make sure that there are no legal problems in states other than Iran. There will probably not be problems here, but we'll still need to ensure that's the case. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
