[ Thanks to Anand
Singh Bisen for this link. ]
“Two school students, Avneesh Chhabra (15) and Shivaas Gulati
(15) designed a Hindi Devanagri font for an inter-school contest.
They won the event, received assurances from Microsoft that the
Seattle-based company may be interested in licensing the fonts from
them, and then, on 25 November 2002, decided nevertheless to
publish the fonts under the freedom-based Lesser Gnu Public License
(LGPL)…”“The fonts will be published on the Indian Linux User Group
Delhi website, http://www.linux-delhi.org, and people across the
world are free to download, to use, and to modify, and to modify
the fonts as they feel fit, under the LGPL license (www.gnu.org for
more info.)“The decision to release it under the LGPL has been made by them
so that those making embedded systems that may not be published
under GLP-ed firmware, such as cellphones, handheld computing
devices, consumer digital/electronic devices, etc. could still use
the fonts under the terms of the LGPL license…”
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