Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font Problems on OS X

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 <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 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 <gohanman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Andy Theuninck <gohanman@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font Problems on OS X
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> 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.
>
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