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RE: CSS3 Web Fonts issue with 'block on download'

From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:31:25 -0400
Message-ID: <E955AA200CF46842B46F49B0BBB83FF28D2F5E@wil-email-01.agfamonotype.org>
To: "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, "Adam Twardoch" <list.adam@twardoch.com>
Cc: "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com>, <w3-style@boblet.net>, <www-style@w3.org> 
Jonathan Kew wrote:
> 
> Isn't the MTX compression format used in EOT patented, which might be
> considered an obstacle to general adoption? Or has this already been
> satisfactorily resolved through some kind of free and universal
> license?
> 
> Jonathan

If adopted, MTX compression will be made available under W3C
Royalty-Free Patent licensing requirements
(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirements).

Vladimir
Received on Thursday, 7 May 2009 19:32:21 GMT

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