MandrakeSoft has been granted authorization to ship the fonts TSC_Aravangal (sans serif) and TSC_AravangalFxd (monospaced) in its distribution by the author of such fonts, Mr. Sinnathurai Srivas <SiSrivas@hotmail.com> ================================== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tscii/message/458 From: Sinnathurai Srivas <sisrivas@y...> Date: Fri Aug 9, 2002 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [tscii] Permission to distribute your font(S) with mandrake linux TSC_Avarangal, TSC_AvarangalFxd and TabAvarangal2 can be used. Please note that Unicode portion of these fonts should not be rendered and should Unicode portion is recomonded for research purposes. Sinnathurai --- prabu_anand2000 <prabu_anand2000@y...> > > After a long time, i'm coming back to you people > asking for a help. > I have been using all your work for my daily work in > the past few > years. I take this opportunity to thank each and > everyone of you to > make tamil computing easier. I really appreciate you > all at tscii, to > make your hardwork available for everyone's use at > no cost. > > Pls. see our(me/vasee) communication with Mandrake > packagers. There is > very good chance Tamil will be fully available in a > Linux distribution > out of the box. This can be used for teaching people > who never knew > english. > > I kindly request font authors to give permission to > use their fonts > for this Linux distribution. Pls. note that Mandrake > gives back > everything to public domain. So pls. be assured that > this distribution > will not take away your hardwork. > > Pls. reply if you've any clarifications/concerns on > this. I definitely > don't want to take "no reply" as "acceptance". > Affirmative action is > what we need and i sincerely hope that the font > athors will oblige to > make Tamil Richer by this step. > > thanks for reading this. > > Regards., > Prabu