- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:45:52 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] wrote: >I'm not fully familiar with everything that EOT offers. You're >correct about the TTF embedding bit, though it is trivial to override >and is in fact *necessary* to override in many cases as many >completely free fonts nevertheless have the embed bit set by >overzealous programs. Not sure I understand the "necessary to override" comment, but... >I believe I should amend my statement to say that none of the >proposals floated on this list have placed "limiting the author" as a >priority in any way. If any limitations have been requested, it is on >the website viewers. Author limitations haven't come up once in any >of the many, many messages that have been sent on this topic, to the >best of my memory. > >So, the effect of licensing terms on page authors is still apparently >orthogonal to discussion of an interoperable webfont format. I still don't understand, because I think what the license enables page authors to do with fonts is precisely what the discussion of an interoperable webfont format is about. Sorry to be dense.
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