BPG Georgian Unicode fonts - packagers wanted

[George Machitidze]

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM, George Machitidze <giomac at 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.mailhot at 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
>>
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> BR,
> George Machitidze
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BR,
George Machitidze
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