From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: no font shown with tamil.el Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:33:14 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200302120034.JAA06339@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045082714 15518 80.91.224.249 (12 Feb 2003 20:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18j3cu-00039K-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18j3p2-0003ON-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:49:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j3aQ-0007HG-0D for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j3Zr-00074n-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j3Zc-0006MK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j3ZE-0005f1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:33:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18j3ZC-00056E-00; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:33:14 -0500 Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-reply-to: <200302120034.JAA06339@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:34:55 +0900 (JST)) Original-cc: bob@rattlesnake.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11604 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11604 The new Indian implementation uses the ISFOC standard fonts. We use CDAC ISFOC fonts to display the Devanagari script in Emacs. They are copyrighted, Being copyrighted is not a problen--Emacs is also copyrighted. The issue is, is it released under a free software license? but we received permission to use them in Emacs from the font developers. Special permission to use something "in Emacs" or "with Emacs" is usually NOT sufficient. In order for us to use anything, we have to be able to distribute it under a free software license. Would you please show me the license of these fonts? I can check if it is a free software license. If these are not free, we cannot use them in Emacs or recommend them to Emacs users. Also, what is ISFOC? Is it in India? Can you tell me how to contact the people there? I am on the way to India now, and if these are not free, I may be able to convince them to make them free. We may have to convert the code in Emacs to work with whatever free fonts are available. How quickly can you do that?