Re: KacstQr is incomplete

["N. Heer" <heer at u dot washington dot edu>]

Nadim,

	I think you are correct that Harf's offerings are not open-source.
But perhaps they could be persuaded to put the Qur'anic fonts in the
public domain.  It's hard to imagine that anyone would claim to have a
copyright or patent on anything directly related to the text of the
Qur'an.

Nicholas

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Nicholas L Heer <heer at u dot washington dot edu> wrote:
> > Anyone who is interested in Qur'anic fonts should certainly take a look at
> > Harf's electronic Qur'an.  It's available online at www.al-islam.com.  I
> > would be surprised if it contained mistakes because it has been authorized by
> > the `ulama' in both al-Riyadh and al-Azhar.  Harf is Harf Information
> > Technology at www.harf.com.  It used to be a division of Sakhr Software.
>
> Unfortunately none of harf.com's offerings are open-source and as such
> we need to continue on our quest to bring forth such a solution to those
> that require it.  If I was hasty in my observations (baring the access to
> the free web Quran which we're not after), let us know.
>
> BTW: I didn't see any font offerings (per the topic of this thread).
>
> Salam & Thanks.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
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