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>

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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