[Bug 159950] Offer to download missing fonts from relevant online sources (dynamically, after installation)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159950

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Offer to download & install |Offer to download missing
                   |missing fonts from online   |fonts from relevant online
                   |sources                     |sources (dynamically, after
                   |                            |installation)

--- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #8)
> Neither the project nor TDF can host fonts of questionable license.

Agreed, but this bug doesn't suggest hosting fonts. Rather, it's about allowing
the download of fonts from known, stable, 3rd-party sources.

> Nor can
> we police the Intellectual Property rights of how LibreOffice is used. 

Also agreed, but I don't believe I suggested we do that.

> But we don't want to "poison" LibreOffice with unlicensed or illegal font
> bundling.

Again - this bug is not about bundling :-( I am not suggesting we bundle more
stuff. Let me try to clarify this in the phrasing of the title.

In fact, if anything, this may allow for a reduction in the number of bundled
fonts.

> I've
> suggested a TDF commissioned metric equivalent to Aptos under SIL Open Font
> License, host it for download and bundle it into LibreOffice.

A fine suggestion, which is mostly orthogonal to this bug. I mentioned Aptos as
an example of a font which users may like to have LibreOffice download when
they encounter it in a document - providing that this is possible license-wise
and availablility-wise, with a legit source. But if we can't do this for Aptos
- we can still do it for many other fonts.

> Otherwise facilitating access to "cloud hosted" or "centralized" (e.g. on
> premise) font repositories with dynamic font loading, and optional install
> to user profile, is a needed feature.

Hmm... that would be useful as well.

So, LO as bundled could have several publicly-accessible font download sources,
which could be searched when an unavailable font is encountered; but this list
could be made user-extensible, with a URL of a font repository which an
organization might offer/configure (or an individual user if they have access
to one).

How does that sound?

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