[Wikimediaindia-l] Please add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit Wikipedia

[Swaroop Rao]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 16:40, ePandit | ई-पण्डित
<sharma.shrish at gmail.com>wrote:

> NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical.
>
Wikipedia use is non-commercial, but since it is open for reuse, the reuse
need not be necessarily non-commercial.


> NoDerivs - Do the font need to be modified for using as web font?
>
>
> It is clearly stated that it can be used as a web font.
>
> 2011/12/15 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at 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 at 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 at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:16, ePandit | ई-पण्डित
>> >> <sharma.shrish at 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
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Regards
>> >> Srikanth.L
>> >>
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