Yes, the fonts come with Windows, but not with other operating systems. On MacOS, they are legally available with MS Office installed. On Linux, they are not available at all.
C-Fonts cannot be legally embedded, although they can be mechanically embedded (and no one warns you about the legal risks). If you receive a document which embeds a C-Font, the font may end up being installed on your system (even if you are not allowed to use it because you do not own a license). Microsoft can legally pursue the owner of the C-Font license. By using C-Fonts, you are therefore producing documents with limited interoperability, even if you are legally allowed to use them (as you own a Windows license). C-Fonts are not interoperable also in technical terms, as they have a peculiar metric size, which is difficult to emulate. This means that a document where a C-Font is replaced with another font will be visually different, to the point that many users will believe that contents are not the same. I hope this helps. On 27/04/2016 20:43, Mike Hall wrote: > On 27/04/2016 13:42, Italo Vignoli wrote: >> Several people at TDF have been involved in the decision process and >> have contributed specific evidence about ODF and OOXML > I zapped your last message, but I wondered whether it was necessary to > have an MSO licence to use Calibri etc. This windows PC, originally Win > 7, now Win 10 has all the MS fonts but has never had MSO installed, > which seems to imply it's Windows rather than Office that brings in the > fonts? -- Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR mobile +39.348.5653829 - email / jabber it...@libreoffice.org hangout / jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com - skype italovignoli GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
