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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 11 13:57:26 +0000 2008 ------- Again, please read Adobe vs. ITC (AGFA) sentence before further commenting. It's exactly the same situation: Adobe had and has applications that embed fonts. They didn't win that trial because "effective embedder is end user", but because they (Adobe) had payed for rights to produce applications that embeds fonts. In this issue has already been suggested to get a license from AGFA for a specific technology in order to get a better MS Office compatibility. If that solution is a viable one, it may resolve all problems. Otherwise, if technically possible according to OpenDocument specifications, it would be good to enforce a *strict* respect for embedding bits included into fonts files. However, even if fonts have the "Editable" or "Installable" bit set, we still don't know nothing about its license. I have personally read "Cease and Desist" letters addressed to software developers and written for claims based on Section 1201(a) of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act because their software *may* be used to embed fonts that had the "No Embedding Allowed" bit set. And those developers used their software for *free* fonts embedding. I don't say a Cease and Desist letter is like a law or a sentence. Nevertheless, at least, it's surely a good chance to be called before a court to resolve the question. Does OOo *really* need this sort of "risk"? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
