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Originally Posted by Blossom
We don't know the license expired they could have went with a new company for many reasons we can only speculate on the why but no one knows why Gothic was really removed as Kobo has not released that info.
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Yes, you are right. We don't know if the license expired. And my fairly pedantic nature would usually have made sure I didn't make an absolute statement like that.
But, Kobo stated in a place that I, and several other members of this forum, saw, that they were changing their "font license supplier". They didn't give a reason for this, but the main reason that a company would do something like that is that their current contract is up and they found someone "better". And not re-signing with the previous supplier will mean the license will expire. Whether it had before this release, or will in the near future, I don't know. But removal of the Gothic and Ryumin fonts IS a licensing issue.
You will note I said "better". I have no idea what they consider better. The most likely thing is that the other supplier is cheaper. Or maybe the old one went out of business. Or maybe the new supplier has better fonts.
Of course, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Kobo did this simply because they wanted to f*** over their customers.