Hi :) So, a company would be taking a small risk by grabbing it. If they grab enough then statistics work in their favour. I'm not a copyright legal expert but i wonder if applying a copyleft agreement would create enough uncertainty as to prevent the rights being subverted by some profit hungry company? Regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 7/6/12, Andy Theuninck <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andy Theuninck <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font Problems on OS X To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 7 June, 2012, 16:48 I'm certainly not a lawyer or anything, but I don't think abandonware automatically enters public domain. The copyright remains valid even if the company holding it has no assets. That's pretty well established with software. I doubt it would be different with fonts. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Quick! Re-licence the legacy fonts under Creative Coomons copyleft to > prevent some other company being far less honest than you are being. I take > it a company could easily and safely copyright those fonts and then charge > people for using them? Some companies put quite a lot of effort into > profiting off other people's work in this way. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Thu, 7/6/12, Andy Theuninck <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Andy Theuninck <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font Problems on OS X > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 7 June, 2012, 15:19 > >> Is there any advantage to using Type-1 fonts over the other two formats, >> with OSX? >> >> It there a way to replace the "problem" Type-1 fonts with TTF or OTF, or use >> a 99.9% similar font as a replacement font? > > There's no advantage. The main catch is the company I licensed the > fonts from no longer exist, and my license agreement doesn't permit > converting them. Obviously the odds of getting sued are pretty much > zero, but in principle I try to abide by agreements. > > I can use NeoOffice for anything that needs that font; it's just kind > of a pain since LO is a better program otherwise. > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
