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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 12 07:27:24 +0000 2008 ------- tange: you can search also Agfa vs. Adobe [404 F. Supp. 2d 1030 (N.D. Ill. 2005)]. They sued each other several times on very similar topics. This sentence is really more liberal and it may permit OOo to implement a font embedding feature even in the U.S. However, it has not prevented other corporations to start claims about the very same question. For example, Storage Technology Corp. v. Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting, Ltd [No. 02-12102-RWZ, 2006 WL 1766434 (D. Mass. June 28, 2006)] and others. This is the "risk" I was talking about: unneeded trials in a controversial law field. Then, there are other legal concerns related to users' work. For example, a font that has the "Allow embedding" bit set says nothing about its license. Example: Armadillo spoke about GPLed fonts. Let's say that such a font has the quoted above bit set and OOo embeds it into a document. If the font license doesn't includes the "GPL font exception" http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis (explanation of the exception aka "ratio") *each* work derivated from that document and is content would become GPLed. So: you should know if a font has been embedded into a document, what license rules it and if the embedder applied that license in the right way! And what about if you duplicate the document and then release your own copy under Creative Commons or a proprietary copyright since *in the content* is written that you can apply such licenses? Is it a legal nightmare, isn't it? Same considerations can be done for proprietary fonts EULA and your own documents. Sincerely, embedding fonts is a *risky* activity, legally speaking. You should have a windows that pops up every time someone opens a document and warns "A font has been embedded under license XYZ"... And trials about fonts embedding are not so uncommon. And even if you win them, they have a *cost*, in time and money. Recently, even in my country, Italy, Business Software Association started a campaign against "font piracy". Implementing this feature would make me wonder if I'm a "pirate" just because someone, somewhere, has embedded a font in a document that I have to edit. IMO, there would be too much troubles. Making this feature an option for those professionals who really need it? I may agree on this, but it should be a very detailed and legal-bullet-proof one for the rest of the user world. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
