[OpenFontLibrary] Font embedding exceptions

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> >>> "The output from running a covered work is covered by  this License 
only if
> >>> the output, given its
>  >>> content, constitutes a covered work."
> >>
>  >> Since you are embedding a font, which is itself a covered work,
>  >> unmodified into the document, an exception is required. The  end.
> >
> > +1
> 
>> A theoretical dissenting  view:
>> 
>> The document is not software and is not a  derivative of the font.
>> Including the font with the document, which  can be used without it, is
>> mere aggregation.
>
>This is  an academic distinction, all major electronic document formats
>(odf, pdf,  doc, html) can include js or vb active code
>
>The correct answer to  the original question is that lack of the
>exception produces legal  incertitude, and good FLOSS citizens do *not*
>want to expose their users  to legal incertitude, so they add the
>exception and the problem is  solved.
>
>-- 

I think we need professional advice on this matter, ie a lawyer or lawyers.  
It's an important question.
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