Hi Oren,
Sun's distribution of OpenOffice, the distribution available on
www.openoffice.org.il includes five Hebrew fonts that Sun Israel licensed
from MasterFont in Tel Aviv. These are not free fonts. In particular, you
are not allowed to distribute them yourself either in a distribution of
OpenOffice or otherwise. You are however allowed to use them on the same
machine that you installed Sun's OpenOffice on for any purpose, not
necessarily for OpenOffice only. The same is true with the Hebrew fonts
that come with Solaris 9.
If you use OpenOffice on a Linux distribution such as RedHat 9 with Culmus
fonts, then the Culmus fonts are free, but the MasterFont fonts are not
free.
If you use OpenOffice on MS Windows then, AFAIK, you are allowed to use
any font installed with Microsoft products (such as MS Office) for
OpenOffice as well. I have not verified this myself by an actual reading
of the Microsoft license agreements so you would be best advised to do so
before telling your users that it is safe to use Microsoft fonts for
OpenOffice.
Regards,
- yba
On 30 Nov 2003, Oren wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a customer who is testing OOF 1.1 (so far he is very happy), but
> has one interesting question, he would like to know if we have any leagl
> issues with the fonts which OOF uses? if i'm correct OOF uses the fonts
> of the OS (LInux or WIndows) is it 100% true? are we using any other
> fonts that the user get when he installs OOF? if so, are these fonts
> free?
> Thanks,
> Oren.
>
>
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