What fonts can be legally used in an e-book released in pdf under Creative Commons?

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retran2012-05-10 12:14:25

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retran, 2012-05-10 12:14:25

What fonts can be legally used in an e-book released in pdf under Creative Commons?
How legal is it to use a bunch of Calibri, Cambria, Consolas?

I remember about epub and other formats without embedded fonts, but there are still diagrams with inscriptions.

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Vladimir Dubrovin, 2012-05-10
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Microsoft has 4 levels of font embedding permissions. All specified fonts belong to the "editable" level and can be embedded in the document, incl. to a document that is distributed with editing rights (for example, to a template).
In graphics charts where fonts are not embedded, they can be used regardless of embedding permissions, as long as you have the legal right to use the font.

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Zigmar, 2012-05-10
@Zigmar

In Google Web Fonts (http://www.google.com/webfonts) you can pick up something - there are all fonts with an open license.