[ The original message was sent to ivrix. Jonathan replied to linux-il. I'll just comment on two of his points ]
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:40:09AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > 3. There might be some legal exposure to Sun in distributing the Culmus > fonts. The fact that the authors claim the provenance is beyond dispute > (and they in fact have done excellent work on the subject of the > provenance), and the fact that RedHat distributes the fonts does not mean > that Elser+Flake, MasterFont, Shmuel Guttman or even Microsoft > (through SCO of course) cannot file a tort (and a newspaper article) > claiming otherwise. Sun does not need this. I realise that Sun had a number of reasons, and not only the legal issues. I'll just remark that most of the Culmus fonts are clearly free of any legal copyrights or other legal issues. I think enough people here are aware of the exact legal status (Including Maxim Iorsh, of course). I'll leave any discussion of that for private mail. > 5. The price of these fonts was very high. The price for making these > fonts completely free was beyond the budget of Sun and the MoF for this > project. Yes. I fully appreaciate what Sun has done and I hope that my message did not hint I blame Sun. The situation as-is is still much better than no Hebrew support in OpenOffice at all. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
