RE: Fonts WG Charter feedback

Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] wrote:
>I'm not fully familiar with everything that EOT offers.  You're
>correct about the TTF embedding bit, though it is trivial to override
>and is in fact *necessary* to override in many cases as many
>completely free fonts nevertheless have the embed bit set by
>overzealous programs.

Not sure I understand the "necessary to override" comment, but...

>I believe I should amend my statement to say that none of the
>proposals floated on this list have placed "limiting the author" as a
>priority in any way.  If any limitations have been requested, it is on
>the website viewers.  Author limitations haven't come up once in any
>of the many, many messages that have been sent on this topic, to the
>best of my memory.
>
>So, the effect of licensing terms on page authors is still apparently
>orthogonal to discussion of an interoperable webfont format.

I still don't understand, because I think what the license enables page authors to do with fonts is precisely what the discussion of an interoperable webfont format is about.  Sorry to be dense.