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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 21 11:19:41 -0700 2005 ------- This could be the cause of #54925 Embedding fonts is a nice idea. Although it may have legal issues, this is (to be blunt) not a concern of yours/ours/anyone's. It is up to the creator of the document to avoid plagerism and copyright violations. This doesn't mean we can't be nice and display a warning when the user asks to embed fonts; it just means we're not the DRM police and we shouldn't be attempting to stop people from doing it if they want. After all, the party creating the document may be licensed to use the font in that way, and we wouldn't want to pretend we're trying to stop them from breaking the law. The font metrics suggestion is interesting for finished presentations; embedding partial fonts is also interesting for finished presentations. Sometimes, however, you want to work on a document you have on a USB flash drive or something and need the full font embedded to do the work. OpenOffice.org could potentially put icons next to open fonts, if you could find a way to embed license information in them. GPL fonts have been questioned as to if they're legally dangerous (do you have to GPL your document?), PD fonts are awesome, CC-by-sa is fine too, as well as GPL with font clause. For the incredibly semantic, this would alert them to which fonts were free and open and which were locked down. Non-iconed ones would be of unknown (and assumed closed) licensing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
