Re: FW: EOT-Lite File Format

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Richard Fink <rfink@readableweb.com> wrote:

> “reasonably restricts access to Font Software for use in any way by web
> pages not originating from the CUSTOMER Web Server (For example; by using
> referrer checking to prevent hotlinking or deeplinking).”
>
> Well, what’s reasonable?
>
> Once user agents that support EOTL are out in the market enforcing
> same-origin restrictions, it seems quite reasonable for me to do nothing at
> all at the server level except let those browsers do their thing and **not
> ** specifically enable linking in the htaccess file.
>

What about all the IE<=8 user agents? Seems like your approach would violate
Ascender's license until they go away completely. If you only use EOTL once
all IE<=8 user agents go away, it's useless.

Rob
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