Hi friends at FSF: Could someone help Krishnakumar please? Also copying this to RMS; maybe he could offer some pointers. Best wishes VK and thanks for writing in. FN

============================================================ From: Krishna v.krishnakumar@gmail.com Date: 2005/10/11 Tue AM 02:44:29 GMT+05:30 To: fred@bytesforall.org Subject: CDAC fonts with Emacs.

Hi Frederick,

I've read your posts on ILUG-C and from those I know that you have a long standing association with FSF-India. I was hoping you could help me out with some Emacs/CDAC licensing related issues.

On http://www.m17n.org/emacs-indian/ it says :

"Thanks to the C-DAC at Pune, Emacs Project Team has received the permission to use C-DAC ISFOC fonts for Emacs-Indian support in 1998."

However, I'm unable to find any further licensing information either on the Emacs site or from CDAC. My vested interest in getting these fonts under the GPL is using these with our opensource/GPLed editor that is currently under development (http://imli.sf.net) .

Though I know you are not directly related to either the Emacs project or CDAC I was hoping your association with FSF-India can help me get some clarity in this issue. I have turned to you for help because the Emacs-indian mailing list seems to have gone silent since 2003. Given Emacs's status as one of FSF's most visible projects I thought I would approach somebody from FSF-India for help. I know this is a demand on your time and I apologize for this but I was unable to think of any other avenues for information.

I would be very grateful for any help you can provide. If you are not the right person to contact about this, can you point me in the right direction, please.

Thanks and regards, -Krishna -- "The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man." - Richard Feynman ============================================================

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