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Leftovers: Copying, Fonts, LibreOffice and Type Knight

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  • Public statement by Rachana Institute of Typography on the copyright/credit issue of SMC and RIT fonts

    We — KH Hussain, CV Radhakrishnan, PK Ashok Kumar and KV Rajeesh — are the copyright holders of TN Joy font. Many of us have worked on free/libre/open source software for years in our spare time and contributed code, design, fonts, documentation, localization and financial support to various free software projects. Our contributions can be found easily on the Web and elsewhere.

    [...]

    During the first week of Nov-2019 for the summit organized by Kerala Media Academy, all the copyright holders of TN Joy font met and discussed the issue raised by Santhosh.

    As free software developers and users, it was not our intention to violate copyright or appropriate credit of another free software developer’s work at all. Not only in intention, but we strived to achieve that in all our projects by acts. So, this accusation came as a surprise to us and we decided to take a deeper look at how this issue originated and what the root cause is, to address it properly.

  • Oracle vs Google will be decided once and for all in the Supreme Court

    ORACLE AND GOOGLE will decide the future of open-source software in the Supreme Court.

    The long-running feud between the two tech giants has already travelled through every part of the court system in the US with appeals being won and lost on an unerring basis. Now the final act will play out in the highest court of the land.

    Oracle has argued repeatedly that although its Java code was open-source, the APIs were proprietary and therefore subject to copyright and licensing fees.

    Google claims that just isn't cricket and that if the code is free-to-use then charging from the APIs has repercussions not just for Android which heavily depended on them in its early days, but for the entire open-source community.

    Google has since written its own code and no longer requires the use of the contested APIs, but Oracle argues that it should still receive royalties worth billions, to cover every single Android device ever released.

  • The best LibreOffice extensions. Formatting of all Math formulas

    So, there is another one the best LibreOffice extension for you! If you have many number of Math formulas in your Writer, Calc, Draw or Impress document, then you know you can't change font and font size for these objects for one time. You should open its one-by-one and change these parameters manually in Math editor. Ugly!
    Our extension Formatting of All Math Formulas allows you change only font or only font size or both for ALL Math formulas in your document for one time! Or you can select only several Math formulas and make your changes only for it.

  • Improve your typing to fight hordes of monsters in retro arcade game Type Knight

    In Type Knight, you fight skeletons, bats, wraiths and more via the awesome power of your rapid (and hopefully accurate) typing.

    Note: Key provided by the developer.

    Released last month, Type Knight appears to be the first game by this developer and took around 18 months to deliver the final version on Steam after several demos on Itch.

    As the titular "Type Knight", you automatically walk through the graveyard while enemies approach from the right of the screen with words above their heads - type that word and your character delivers an oddly satisfying swipe of his sword to decimate them.

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