Doesn't MOSS stand for Maldives Open Source Society?
I can't find a lot of info on them as they don't seem to be active online at the moment, but I did find this:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-core-marketing/2009-June/000000.htm...
Maybe someone could e-mail the author of that message and ask if they can be of assistance in determining the copyright status of the font?
Based on that e-mail it appears they may be the same group as the Maldives Linux Users Group:
Just some ideas...
2013/2/12, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org:
On 02/12/2013 03:56 AM, oәuɐႡɔsʇnәp nɐႡsn wrote:
Hello. The fonts at Dhivehi Wikipedia and Wiktionary are not webfonts. If possible could the fonts be changed to Faruma which can be downloaded from here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvishah/ttf-dhivehi-fonts/trunk/view/head:/ttf-...
The copyright for that package is GPL (see https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvishah/ttf-dhivehi-fonts/trunk/view/head:/deb...), which we could use.
However, it isn't clear that the font itself is under the GPL. The copyright file says "downloaded from http://moss.org.mv" but moss.org.mv doesn't appear to be registered currently so there is no DNS domain.
IANAL, but I think we need to show proper provenance for the fonts before we can use it and right now, it looks like I'm hitting a dead end.
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