[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136604] Unbundle the Source font families and remove them from our templates

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136604

--- Comment #6 from Caleb Maclennan <caleb at alerque.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #5)
> IMO, bundling fonts [...] is no better than what those
> great installers do that tell you "you are installing our product Foo. But
> why not additionally install this great browser, and this nice Antivirus,
> and also that other piece of software"...

I hear what you are saying but I think you're completely missing the point. I
don't want TDF/LO to distribute a bunch of unrelated projects either. But
that's not what this issue report is about. "Here are cool fonts you might use"
is not the point here, the point is that the fonts being discussed are *used in
LO documents and templates*.

Any font used in any documents or templates distributed as part of LO also
needs the specific fonts used to be distributed as well otherwise they are
worse than useless to the end user. You simply can't guarantee that system will
have the font otherwise, and font fallbacks are an absolutely terrible end user
experience that would basically ruin most templates and leave a bad impression.
Bundling fonts used by default and/or in templates that ship with LO is pretty
much a requirement for the suite to be fully featured. This is not at all the
same issue as random software that installs unrelated packages that are not
needed to function as a form of promotion.

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