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Originally Posted by HarryT
I see no problem with it, personally. It's a part of the firmware, and available for any application to use. When application "A" installs a font on your Windows PC or Mac, do you worry about using that font in application "B"? It's licensed for your device.
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technically, it is not part of firmware, it has been added to a software folder within android system folders.
I don't worry about it in windows , it is I believe explicit in the windows T&C that system fonts can be used in any PC program, but who is to say that amazon play to same rules
e.g. when I got strongly warned about copyright for posting a copy here a few months ago, I pointed out that licencing terms do not seem to be explicitly stated anywhere. it just arrived on my device, unsolicited, one day.
so what " rules" govern e.g. whether I can put a copy of the font that I was " given" into my dropbox, onto my PC.... or even into another app's data folder.
I personally have no issue with other apps on my fire using the new font, we have already established that moon reader pro does so without asking and works OK, but I can envisage Mantano support saying " we are not licensed to use that font" so we can't test for a bug / can't help you....
and is it a technical licence breach to place a copy to where calibre viewer can use it, or example