https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172557
--- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Andy from comment #2) > documents edited using proprietary fonts can be subject to fees and > restrictions, depending on the font license. Not sure that is true in practice. Downloading films and TV series episodes is "subject to fees and restrictions", and yet hundreds of Millions of people do it all the time and rather openly, and (essentially) nobody is restricted nor pays fees. > Highlighting open fonts can prevent the user releasing documents that can > lead to legal causes and copyright infringment. Many LO users and developers don't accept copyrights as legitimate. As for legal cases - like I said before, I don't think that this is true in practice. But - prove me wrong: Do you have statistics regarding people who have faced lawsuits for distributing ODT/OOXML documents, or PDF documents based on them, that have proprietary fonts, without having paid license fees? Even statistics for a single world state would already be interesting. > I'm not a LibreOffice developer, but I think that the impact should be on > the font selection list box and on a preliminary collection / association of > the installed fonts with the respective licenses. But I'm not against the spirt of this request, as open-license creative work should be encouraged and supported. But - not something as visible and attention-attracting by default. Possible alternative suggestions: * If we offer font information on right-click, as per bug 152487, there could be some color-coding of whether the license is "open" or not. * We could have a command for a "font license openness check", with the result somehow visualizing which fonts are problematic. Not quite sure how though; perhaps something like the accessibility scan? On the taskbar? * We could offer such highligting as a toggle, e.g. in the font selection pane of the Format | Character... dialog * We could offer to filter the font list to only open-license ones, e.g. via a toggle/check box. * We could offer such highlighting - either in the Format | Character... dialog and/or in the typeface drop-down - as an option under Tools | Options... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
