- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:03:24 +0200
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Cc: (wrong string) åkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Also sprach Thomas Phinney:
> > You can add this font to a website but do not combine fonts into a
> > single archive or alter them in any way.
> > [1] http://www.princexml.com/fonts/larabie2/read_me.html
>
> Actually, that readme file clearly DOES allow EOT usage (see the
> reference to WEFT). Clearly the author is not excited about the
> wonderfulness of EOT, but he's fine with people using it on his fonts.
You're right that the FAQ makes a reference to WEFT:
If you want to use one of my fonts as your main, text font you're
pretty much out of luck unless you explore a font embedding tool
such as WEFT but I don't recommend it.
This seems to contradict the license, but IANAL.
It doesn't solve the general problem, though; many fonts can freely be
used on the web, but cannot legally be altered.
Thus, linking to TT/OT allows for this rich resevoir of fonts to be
used on the web; other solutions don't.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Friday, 3 July 2009 12:04:27 UTC