NoOp wrote: > On 05/22/2009 01:36 PM, Gordon wrote: >> NoOp wrote: >> >>> Your licenced copy of Office 2007 authorizes you to use the fonts >>> supplied with that OS while using that OS. Search the archives for >>> similar discussions. >> Would you like to provide a citation for that? >> The reason I ask is that certain Windows Media Codecs are only supposed >> to be downloaded and installed in Linux IF the user has a licensed copy >> of Windows. Now in that scenario there is no suggestion that the codecs >> are to be used solely on Windows. >> Surely if that applies then so do fonts. > > Nope. Look it up. You can start here: > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1009
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/RedistributionFAQ.mspx NEITHER link says, explicitly, that I cannot use a font supplied with a legally owned copy of MS Office elsewhere. For example, installing Office on Windows allows Open Office to use the fonts that are supplied in Windows. Extrapolating your argument, using this font in Open Office on Windows is against the copyright, even though the font exists in a WINDOWS folder not an Office folder and is available to ALL applications installed on Windows, not just Office. There is NOTHING either in the Office EULA that I agreed to to tell me that the fonts are restricted, and there is NOTHING in the EULA that says that I MUST install Office on Windows. What about if I install Office on Wine for example? I am sorry, but your "argument" is spurious IMHO and doesn't stand up to logic. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
