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On 12/02/2017 06:31 PM, arakish wrote:

There are no laws against embedding fonts in documents so you can keep using the same font across 
system units.

Copyright law, and licensing rules come into play here.

If a person has purchased a font for their use, then they are allowed to embed that font into 
their documents.

That literally depends upon what the terms of the license that the font
is sold/leased under state.

Commercial foundries typically have licensing for:
* Desktop use only;
* Document embedding only;
* Internal document use only;
* External document use only;
* Intra-web use only;
* World Wide Web use only;
* ePub use only;
* PDF use only;

Use the font for a purpose for which one does not have a license, and
you face a lawsuit that at best, you lose.

I just think that y'all are too lazy to incorporate embedding into your software.

Font licenses are so tricky, that if you don't have a lawyer explain
just what your license allows, you will violate the license. No ifs,
ands, or buts.

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

jonathon


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