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(sorry for my bad english)
Here we can see an exellent example of how copyrights can inhibite technical
progress :-)
Please note that fonts that we usually calls "free" can be not so free as we
think. For example, user of "liberation" fonts v1.0-1 must be located out of
Cuba. Hyperbolic variant: is the font that can be used legally only at Moon free
or not free?
Other interesting thing is from "dejavu" fonts v2.24: "The above copyright and
trademark notices and this permission notice
shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software
typefaces." Does it mean that text of license of this fonts must be included in
document that has this fonts in embedded form?
The next thing. Many of people here say about "legal nightmare" that we will
have if embedding fonts in OpenOffice documents will be implemented. But now
OpenOffice can export documents to PDF. I do not know technical details, but it
looks like resulting PDFs have embedded fonts. And AFAIK editing of PDFs feature
will be implemented in future. Please note that OpenOffice does not show any
warnings about legal problems when create PDFs.
By the way. This is question to all people here who want OpenOffice without
fonts embedding but want to use free software and free fonts. How do you send
you documents to Windows users?
I have a problem with this now. When I give an odt document to my colleagues -
Windows users for editing, I give them also a distributive of OpenOffice +
archive with fonts on USB flash drive + instructions how to install this fonts
into Windows. The solution of this problem is using only "liberation" fonts
family. This fonts has same metric that main Windows fonts and documents can be
opened properly on Windows even if "liberation" fonts is not installed. But
"liberation" family have no font with "times"-like view ("Liberation Serif" have
same metric that "Times New Roman"), so limitation to use only this font family
is very restrictive.
The other problem I have is broken font that have different metric in different
formats. Document that using this font in Type-1 format on GNU/Linux can not be
transfered to Windows where this font is in TrueType format because an interval
between text lines is different :-(
To luctur:
> However, even if fonts have the "Editable" or "Installable" bit set we still
don't know nothing about its license.
What about a new font format with embedded license? Or about petitions to
current font formats authors with ask to add obligatory license text to font
files in this formats?
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