Re: [Freebangfont-devel] UniBangla

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 08:21, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> 
> I don't think political or personal inclinations of individuals (or groups 
> for 
> that matter) concern any of us much. I don't follow Microsoft related news, 
> so I have no idea how much of these perceptions are true. I also have no idea 
> how big of a business it is in Bangladesh to sell these add-ons, but of 
> course it's quite likely that these will eventually suffer. Which is bad, but 
> on the other hand I personally don't think software should have any monetary 
> value (software skills are another matter), so I don't really care.
> 
> But all this is really beside the point. The concepts of Free Software and 
> the 
> GPL have nothing to do with India (and especially not Microsoft), and it is 
> the spirit of these concepts that BIOS is violating. It's really very simple, 
> all the GPL asks (and what BIOS seems to ignore) is that creators be given 
> credit for their creations. It also asks that any work derived from the GPL 
> also be GPL'd, which BIOS is also ignoring because they often seem to have no 
> license statement at all. I don't know what Bangladesh laws are, but I doubt 
> the default laws correspond to the GPL exactly.

Well, as far as the UniBangla font is concerned - the readme.txt (not
README :-( states
License: GNU License

What is that???

-sdg-

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