BPG Georgian Unicode fonts - packagers wanted

[George Machitidze]

Hi Nicolas!
Thank you for initiating this issue - I didn't expect to see this message
here :)
I will talk with him directly and package files - I'm very experienced with
rpmbuild and spec-s.
Actually, I planned to release it, but I was little busy...
btw, one of our friends just few hours ago finished first georgian psfu
console font too, now we are testing it...
2009/2/4 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>

> Dear all,
>
> Yesterday I took the time to find the current address of a well-known
> Georgian font creator, Besarion Paata Gugushvili. Our current Georgian
> support is rather limited: one set of glyphs in Dejavu, and nothing else
> (This set was created by the very same author BTW). Imagine using the
> same font all day long everywhere :(
>
> Some of his other fonts had long found their way in other major
> distributions (Mandriva, OpenSuse, Debian, Ubuntu…), at a time Fedora
> was largely ignoring this problem-space, but there was no public
> licensing statement of his part on any of his web sites. Which meant we
> could not just lift the files from the internet, and package them to
> reach Georgian support parity with others.
>
> So took the time to write the author a long nice mail asking to confirm
> the licensing. I didn't expect much, this kind of request usually takes
> ages to be answered, and the answer is usually not the one we'd like
> (when we don't hit language barriers).
>
> Anyway this time the reply was awesome:
> 1. less than 9 hours later (most of them night I'm sure)
> 2. a *new* font pack release (not the old files everyone else ships)
> 3. with *new* fonts (not just updates of the fonts everyone else ships)
> 4. with a clear licensing statement on the author web site (not a
> third-party site like before)
> 5. and adding the FSF font exception to the GPL statement (people who
> tried know how hard it is to get this one usually, many font authors
> just don't understand the need)
>
> So, Fedora would seriously suck if we took ages to package those fonts
> now. Or if other distros beat us to it. Unfortunately, I'm a *tad* busy
> right now, and can't possibly work on it short term.
>
> Therefore, I'm doing a public call on Fedora lists, for someone to
> package those, and prove Besarion Paata Gugushvili was right to trust
> Fedora.
>
> All the relevant technical information is here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BPG_fonts
>
> Let's rock!
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
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BR,
George Machitidze
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