Description of problem: MuktiNarrow font was/is best font for Bengali. It was included in Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3. In Fedora Core 4 this font was excluded and Lohit Bengali was included. Latest development release of Fedora Core also contain only Lohit Bengali. Ref: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/fonts-indic-1.10-2.1.src.rpm It will be better if MuktiNarrow font is included again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
These bugs are being closed since a large number of updates have been released after the FC5 test1 and test2 releases. Kindly update your system by running yum update as root user or try out the third and final test version of FC5 being released in a short while and verify if the bugs are still present on the system .Reopen or file new bug reports as appropriate after confirming the presence of this issue. Thanks
This bug exist in the development branch too.
Any updates on this issue?
We did not receive any responses from the original glyph creator, and cannot get enough information to clear the background check of the font. What information are required before the inclusion in the Fedora Core again: For clearing the legal background of the fonts, could you help us getting an ownership statement, mainly stating: - From the designers of all glyphs within the font and ownership of them - the origin of the glyph design or what fonts/glyphs is it inspired from. - the owner(s) have granted the license of GPL. Just to clarify, the ownership statements need to be written by the original owners (scanned document is great, but email is fine as well). Thanks.
No response from reporter since 4 months so closing this bug now.
I seems this request went nowere. Since our font packaging process has changed a lot in the past months, please restart using the instructions on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fonts_packaging if you're still interested
As Mukti Narrow fonts are now part of fedora as fbf-mukti-fonts, as developer and maintainer of the font I thought it is important to clear the legal issues once and for all. 1. Free software foundation announced release of Indian language fonts by Akruti Multimedia https://web.archive.org/web/20021129221508/http://www.gnu.org.in/software/software.html#akruti bng-1 and bng-2 among them 2. Mukti font family was created using bng-1 and Mukti Narrow family was created using bng-2 family 3. Mike Meir told in Microsoft volt forum that bng-1 glyphs are a lift off from Linotype Bengali. https://forum.fontlab.com/archive-old-microsoft-volt-group/perfect-bengali-otf-font/ 4. We at Free Bangla font project, informed FSF india regarding the claim. 5. In May 2003, Free Software foundation announced withdrawal of bng-1n and bng-1b from GPL https://web.archive.org/web/20030523225032/https://fsf.org.in/ 6. Immediately original Mukti Regular and Mukti Bold font is withdrawn. 7. In 2006, Mukti Narrow family, which was not encumbered by any copyright claim, was renamed Mukti. So present Mukti font has no legal issues.