[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 #4 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #3)
> 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.

Quite unfortunate that this is the case (though i knew you used to maintain
them :D).

> 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).

It is mentioned in the font description that "KACST holds the copyright of the
included Arabic font which is donated under GPL by KACST", so as they didnt
mention which version of the GPL, we shouldn't distribute it?

> 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

Have seen the fonts at google fonts before, do you have any recommendations?

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