Re: Agenda, action items and suggested WOFF changes

As likely as that might be, I don't think it's necessary to know or factor it in to our thinking. If conversion tool requirements are established, then it doesn't matter who's doing the converting, right?

-C


On May 11, 2010, at 5:40 PM, John Hudson wrote:

> Sylvain Galineau wrote:
> 
>> In practice, will web authors use a tool to generate a WOFF file, or will the
>> font maker give them that WOFF file ? Does the author get a TTF with a license
>> to make WOFFs out of it but only those can be used on the web, or does he get 
>> a no-web-use/no-conversion license for the TTF version and a separate WOFF with 
>> a web-use license ?
> 
> All the commercial font vendors with whom I've discussed this are 
> working on the latter model, i.e. no conversion licenses, WOFFs 
> delivered direct from the foundry. I'm sure there will be exceptions, 
> including customer-specific licenses to permit conversion, just as there 
> are special licenses that already permit customers to do things that the 
> general retail EULA does not, but I'm pretty sure that the main 
> licensing model for web fonts from commercial vendors will involve WOFF 
> files from the vendor, most likely serialised and with customer-specific 
> meda-data in both font and wrapper.
> 
> JH
> 

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