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------- Additional comments from l...@openoffice.org Fri Feb 12 18:45:08 +0000 2010 ------- Most often the fonts I want to create documents with are those which are explicitly distributable, but unfortunately have not acheived the distribution one might hope. There is much confusion about whether fonts can be held to a copyright anyway. It is the font PROGRAM, FILE, or CODE that is licensed. According to copyright law,"Familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring..." are NOT eligible for copyright protection. http://www.copyright.gov/; click on “Copyright Basics” for more information. I find it remarkably silly that people have been so overly cautious about allowing the use of fonts. The intention of copyright law was never to disallow anyone from creating THEIR OWN ORIGINAL works in the style which they choose. A document is not a derivitive work of a font. The document displays the lettering which cannot be copyrighted. The problem is that when a font is embedded, the resulting file IS a derivitive of the font (program, code). Part of the copyrighted code is included with the document. If this code was protected so that it cannot be extracted or used on a computer that does not have the font installed, then the document cannot be edited on that computer, or effectively archived. Perhaps there is a way to create an approved font list for fonts that are known and documented to be distributable, and allow fonts on that list to be embedded. There are some really great open fonts available these days. There would be little need to use the fonts with restrictive licenses if we could just share the non-restricted ones freely. The licenses can be found. I'm suggesting the possibility that people could sumbit fonts they want on that list with the name, filename, and links to verifiable license documentation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@framework.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@framework.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
