RE: arabetics & open source ?

["Saad Abulhab" <contact at arabetics dot com>]

Dear Nadim

I was very happy to see that Linux has a good base among Arabic users. I
have been on arabeyes.org site before but now I see many other related
active sites. Thank you for your email.

In addition to presenting another option or flavor, our main goal in
designing the mutamathil typefaces was to make Arabic and related scripts
systems and software less dependent on complex and expensive solutions and
to promote Arabetic (Arabic an its derivative scripts) typography.

OpenOffice, GPL or other open access forums were definatly on our mind. At
this point we are not yet ready to go this road with our typefaces. We would
like to concentrate a bit more on readability and other typographical issues
for a while. But in the near future we will probably be in a better position
to go the open licensing way. We have also planned to make our final
commercial fonts available for free and we hope to be able to keep our plan.

Thanks again.

Saad

-----Original Message-----
From: Nadim Shaikli [mailto:shaikli at yahoo dot com]
Sent: Mon, March 29, 2004 2:24 PM
To: Saad Abulhab
Cc: general at arabeyes dot org
Subject: arabetics & open source ?


Mr. Abulhab, Behnam Esfahbod has recently brought to my attention
your extremely interesting project and fonts,

  http://www.arabetics.com

As a volunteer assisting the Arabeyes.org project in bringing Arabic
in all its facets to Linux/Unix, I had wanted to see if you'd be
interested in putting those fonts under an Open License (GPL for
instance or similar) to give it a wider circulation among other
benefits.  We are also very interested in having people assist our
Khotot font project.

  http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot

Do please let us know your thoughts.

PS: do please also CC 'general' in your replies.

Salam and keep up the Great work.

 - Nadim


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