On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 16:40, ePandit | ई-पण्डित <sharma.shr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical. > Wikipedia use is non-commercial, but since it is open for reuse, the reuse need not be necessarily non-commercial. > NoDerivs - Do the font need to be modified for using as web font? > > > It is clearly stated that it can be used as a web font. > > 2011/12/15 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> > > Either of "NonCommercial" and "NoDerivs" clauses in the license make >> it invalid for usage in Wikimedia projects, because they limit the >> usage of the font. >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> “We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >> >> >> >> 2011/12/15 ePandit | ई-पण्डित <sharma.shr...@gmail.com>: >> > In that case please add Sidhanta font to Sanskrit wikipedia, it has most >> > feature rich font for Sanskrit. (Sanskrit 2003 is better in display) >> > http://svayambhava.org/index.php/en/sanskrit/fonts >> > >> > Also it is clearly stated that it can be used as a web font. >> > >> > Siddhnata font software (including font variations and Vaidika IME) is >> > published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 >> > Unported License. Its Latin and Cyrillic glyph sets (based on DejaVu >> font >> > can be used according to free license. Siddhanta can be used as a web >> font. >> > >> > >> > 2011/12/14 Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:16, ePandit | ई-पण्डित >> >> <sharma.shr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I just saw that web fonts facility have been added to Indic wikis. On >> >>> Hindi and Sanskrit wikipedia, there are Lohit Devanagari and Samyak >> >>> Devanagari fonts. >> >>> >> >>> I request to add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit wikipedia (and if >> >>> possible to other Devanagari script based wikis) because it is the >> best >> >>> Unicode font to display Sanskrit text. It is also free, so there is no >> >>> problem to use it for this purpose. >> >> >> >> >> >> As far as I could check, it is not a freely licensed font. They are >> only >> >> free for personal use. I could not find a clear license statement for >> it >> >> though, If you could find it, please point it to us. If its freely >> licensed, >> >> please file a bug request here[1] >> >> >> >> >> >> [1] >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=WebFonts >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards >> >> Srikanth.L >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Shrish Benjwal Sharma (श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा) >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > If u can't beat them, join them. >> > >> > ePandit: http://epandit.shrish.in/ >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > > -- > *Shrish Benjwal Sharma* *(श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा <http://hindi.shrish.in>)* > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > *If u can't beat them, join them.* > > ePandit <http://epandit.shrish.in/>:* *http://epandit.shrish.in/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch>)
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