2011/12/15 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@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.

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2011/12/15 ePandit | ई-पण्डित <sharma.shrish@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.lak@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:16, ePandit | ई-पण्डित
>> <sharma.shrish@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
>>
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>> Srikanth.L
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