Bug 83302
| Summary: | Enhancement request for adding a font | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ramani Arunachalam <ramani1976> | ||||||
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Preston Brown <pbrown> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | mitr, otaylor, rvokal | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-03-01 20:52:22 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Created attachment 89770 [details]
TSC_Avarangal TrueType font (Language - Tamil, Encoding - TSCII)
It's too late at this point to be adding this, however, we can consider it for future releases. Where is the upstream source of this font? Bill, I don't understand what you mean by upstream source. I have attached its .ttf file to this bug. Pls let me know what more you need. Thanks, Ramani In order to put a font into the distribution, we need to make sure we have sufficient information to know that we have legal rights to ship the font, and also to give credit to the creators of the font. Information we would like to have: - Who drew the font - Who owns the copyright on the font - Under what terms can the font be distributed - Is modification of the font allowed - Was the font based on any existing fonts or materials? - Are there any trademarks on the name of the font? (where did the name of the font come from?) Having contact information for the creators of the font also allows us to contact them if people report problems with the font, or we want to check if there are updated versions of the font. Attaching the font tells me nothing about who designed it, where it came from, what its license is, where is the source of the glyphs, etc. Hi, Here're the answers from the author of the font. > - Who drew the font (contact info etc) I, Sinnathurai Srivas (sisrivas), drew it. > - Who owns the copyright on the font Not copyrighted yet, but I own the rights. > - Under what terms can the font be distributed Free for Linux, distributed with GPL license. > - Is modification of the font allowed. Yes, After discussing and obtaining permission from my self for specific requirements. > - Was the font based on any existing fonts or materials? It was based on my original font named TamilAvarangal which uses different encoding. > - Are there any trademarks on the name of the font? (where did the name of the font come from?) There're no trademarks now and it's not registered. If there is any change, I'll inform. The name is obtained from the name of the village where i come from. If you need the written/email permission for using it with GPL, please contact him and he'll do the needful. I have also attached a fixed width font from the same author called TSC_AvarangalFxd (also available under GPL). Could you pls add it too? Thanks much, Ramani Created attachment 89850 [details]
TSC Avarangal fixed width truetype font (TSCII encoding)
We currently have various indic fonts. Please open a new bug if they are not sufficient for this. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Hi, Please add the attached GPL Tamil(ta) font to the next release of Redhat. I can provide you more details about its license if you contact me at ramani1976. Thanks, Ramani Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Distribution doesn't contain this popular tamil font. Additional info: