- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:14:23 -0700
- CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Jonathan Kew wrote: >> I just don't think licensing data is sufficiently complex that it >> needs such an elaborate extensible structured data format - I simply >> don't think it justifies the extra complexity over a pure binary file >> format. > If we do a pure binary format, we'll be debating exactly what to include > or exclude for the next N months, where N is a painfully large number. > Using the more flexible XML approach allows us to avoid much of that pain. I agree with Jonathan. Font makers have been discussing putting licensing metadata into fonts for at least two years, and are still nowhere near agreeing on what should be included or what form it should take. Making the data structure easily extensible is a good idea. JH
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