Re: Scheherazade font merged to Ubuntu

[Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

On Saturday 14 July 2007 14:53:29 Mohsen Saboorian wrote:
> What do you mean by free? See this page:
> http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFonts. At the top of the page there is a note
> about Scheherazade license
> change for 1.001 release:
>
> Updated 2007-06-22
> ScheherazadeRegOT font is now available under the SIL Open Font License.
>
> See OFL-FAQ.txt for more info about the license in the zip file:
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?site_id=nrsi&format=
>file&media_id=scheherazade_OT_1_001&filename=ScheherazadeRegOT_1.001.zip%3Cb
>r+%2F%3E
>
> OFL is even more free/libre than GPL, because it's not viral :).
>
> Best,
> Mohsen.
> _______


That is perfect! I did not know that it is OFL now. Actually, I contacted SIL 
many times to urge them to relicense their Arabic fonts, I am sure many 
participated in the buzz. The only problem with Scheherazade is the small 
size compared to latin glyphs.