[Fedora-legal-list] Ekushey Bengali fonts

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hi,

Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/648
>>> I'm not sure who (if anyone) has been alerted about this request for us
>>> to host some Bengali fonts which apparently have some uncertain 
>>> origins,
>>> despite their licensing.  (See ticket URL above for details.)  This
>>> situation's probably not critical, because there's nothing being hosted
>>> by Fedora yet AFAICT, but it would be nice to respond to the
>>> requestor(s) in the ticket.
>>
>> CC'ing a couple of folks who can check this out.
>
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>
> On a personal note, I would not like to see them hosted at Fedora 
> Infrastructure or included as part of anything related to bn_IN (which 
> is maintained by Runa) till there is clarity on the issue. 
I'd echo the same. As stated by Sayamindu in another mail in this same 
thread, the people involved have a history of plagiarism (ever since the 
time when bn was a single locale) and I would seriously discourage these 
fonts to be associated with bn_IN. The conversations in Bengali, linked 
in the fedorahosted ticket translate into a tirade of allegations 
against the "donor" of the fonts.

hth

regards
Runa

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