- From: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:47:05 -0400
- To: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>
- Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > The fact that this "font filesharing host" distributes font data in > other format or in TTF/OTF format does not make any real difference. > Pretty much all pirated content is already wrapped inside ZIP archives > as far as I know. The fact that pirated content is usable only after > running a simple tool (unzip) does not seem to prevent people from > using > that pirated content. Why do you think that replacing that tool > (unzip) > with other tool (unwrap-the-other-font-format) would make it any > harder > to pirate fonts? I don't think it is a good idea to outright reject the idea of a different format because a party with malicious intent might do something to break it. If we did that with everything, there would be no rules or laws for anything. > I'm afraid that all font foundries cannot accept any terms that can be > implemented by GPL licensed software (Firefox, Safari, Chrome) because > they want some kind of DRM system. No one has requested a DRM system. We're talking about an open standard here. Tal
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