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Hi :)
So, a company would be taking a small risk by grabbing it.  If they grab enough then statistics 
work in their favour.  I'm not a copyright legal expert but i wonder if applying a copyleft 
agreement would create enough uncertainty as to prevent the rights being subverted by some profit 
hungry company?  
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, 16:48

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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