It appears that the various ministries in India are discussing to implement a reference font (OpenType Font) to enable standardization in eGovernance aspects.
More details on the URL below. The link to the disclaimer and, the text of the "Copyright" part of the font is also passed below.
Does the font appear 'sane' otherwise ? More importantly, since this is a 'reference font' with restrictive disclaimer, would any font based on this also inherit the same restrictions ? And, are there issues in creating font test cases for a reference font with such restrictions ?
http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/SakalBharati.htm
Sakal Bharati is a Unicode based Open Type font which includes 11 scripts in one font i.e. Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil & Urdu. It has used Mono thick (Equal thickness of horizontal stems and vertical stem) glyphs for all scripts. Same X height for all 11 scripts. There are more than 3698 glyphs in the Font.
http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/SBdisclaimer.htm
Copyright (c) 2009, TDIL-DIT & CDAC-GIST, INDIA. SakalBharati Normal Open Type Font. ONLY FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. Not to be distributed along with any software for commercial purposes without prior written consent from C-DAC-GIST, Pune.
$ otfinfo -i SakalBharati\ Normal_Ship.ttf Family: SakalBharati Subfamily: Normal Full name: SakalBharati Normal PostScript name: SakalBharati-Normal Preferred family: SakalBharati Preferred subfamily: Normal Mac font menu name: SakalBharati Normal Version: 9.03 Unique ID: CDAC: SakalBharati Normal: 2009 Description: Copyright (c) 2009, TDIL-DIT & CDAC-GIST, INDIA. SakalBharati Normal Open Type Font. ONLY FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.Not to be distributed along with any software for commercial purposes without prior written consent from C-DAC-GIST, Pune. Manufacturer: CDAC Trademark: CDAC Copyright: Copyright (c) 2009, TDIL-DIT & CDAC-GIST, INDIA. SakalBharati Normal Open Type Font. ONLY FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. Not to be distributed along with any software for commercial purposes without prior written consent from C-DAC-GIST, Pune. License URL: http:/www.cdac.in/gist License Description: Copyright (c) 2009, TDIL-DIT & CDAC-GIST, INDIA. SakalBharati Normal Open Type Font. ONLY FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. Not to be distributed along with any software for commercial purposes without prior written consent from C-DAC-GIST, Pune.
On 05/17/2010 11:56 PM, "sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" wrote:
Copyright (c) 2009, TDIL-DIT & CDAC-GIST, INDIA. SakalBharati Normal Open Type Font. ONLY FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. Not to be distributed along with any software for commercial purposes without prior written consent from C-DAC-GIST, Pune.
Since this appears to be the only licensing information available for the font, this is clearly non-free for a number of reasons:
1. Restricted field of use - commercial use restriction 2. No grant of permission to modify 3. No unlimited grant of permission to redistribute
Sorry,
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Tom Callaway