[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113532] Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113532

--- Comment #3 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #2)
> Khaled: For Arabeyes fonts, is there some link you can provide that has more
> details of what the fuzzy legal status relates to?

No link. Arabeyes do not design these fonts (I know be cause I used to maintain
them at some point) and the person who released these fonts under GPL never
answered my queries about the source of these fonts. Some web search should
reveal that some of these fonts are still distributed elsewhere by their
original designers under a non-free license.

> For KACST fonts, not sure
> why them not distributing them any longer would results in the GPL license
> of the fonts to be not clear.

The fonts were not accompanied by a LICENSE file, only a copyright notice
inside the fonts referring to GPL without specifying a license version. If they
were still distributed by KACST hopefully a LICENSE file would be present or
some one would answer queries about the license (again, my attempts to clarify
this went nowhere).

> Do you have any recommendations on which open source arabic fonts that you
> think we should bundle?

There are not that many free Arabic fonts actually, in addition to the sources
you mentioned there is also Google Fonts:
https://fonts.google.com/?subset=arabic

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