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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM, George Machitidze <gio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nicolas! > Thank you for initiating this issue - I didn't expect to see this message > here :) > I will talk with him directly and package files - I'm very experienced with > rpmbuild and spec-s. > Actually, I planned to release it, but I was little busy... > btw, one of our friends just few hours ago finished first georgian psfu > console font too, now we are testing it... > 2009/2/4 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> > >> Dear all, >> >> Yesterday I took the time to find the current address of a well-known >> Georgian font creator, Besarion Paata Gugushvili. Our current Georgian >> support is rather limited: one set of glyphs in Dejavu, and nothing else >> (This set was created by the very same author BTW). Imagine using the >> same font all day long everywhere :( >> >> Some of his other fonts had long found their way in other major >> distributions (Mandriva, OpenSuse, Debian, Ubuntu…), at a time Fedora >> was largely ignoring this problem-space, but there was no public >> licensing statement of his part on any of his web sites. Which meant we >> could not just lift the files from the internet, and package them to >> reach Georgian support parity with others. >> >> So took the time to write the author a long nice mail asking to confirm >> the licensing. I didn't expect much, this kind of request usually takes >> ages to be answered, and the answer is usually not the one we'd like >> (when we don't hit language barriers). >> >> Anyway this time the reply was awesome: >> 1. less than 9 hours later (most of them night I'm sure) >> 2. a *new* font pack release (not the old files everyone else ships) >> 3. with *new* fonts (not just updates of the fonts everyone else ships) >> 4. with a clear licensing statement on the author web site (not a >> third-party site like before) >> 5. and adding the FSF font exception to the GPL statement (people who >> tried know how hard it is to get this one usually, many font authors >> just don't understand the need) >> >> So, Fedora would seriously suck if we took ages to package those fonts >> now. Or if other distros beat us to it. Unfortunately, I'm a *tad* busy >> right now, and can't possibly work on it short term. >> >> Therefore, I'm doing a public call on Fedora lists, for someone to >> package those, and prove Besarion Paata Gugushvili was right to trust >> Fedora. >> >> All the relevant technical information is here: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BPG_fonts >> >> Let's rock! >> >> Best regards, >> >> -- >> Nicolas Mailhot >> >> -- >> Fedora-i18n-list mailing list >> fedora-i18n-l...@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-i18n-list >> > > > > -- > BR, > George Machitidze > > -- BR, George Machitidze
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