- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:26:37 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Enforcement would be > the responsibility of the font vendor and not the browser or > authoring tool, although font vendors would greatly appreciate any > support offered by browsers in communicating the need to obtain > licenses. > Assuming that the last sentence comes out loud and clear, I think it > will be ok. That is, there will be no new data for browsers to deal > with. There will be new data that a browser maker may elect to deal with; indeed, new data that the browser maker will hopefully see as worth dealing with, because it serves web publishers. Personally, I would modify that last sentence to replace 'font vendors' with some more inclusive term: it currently encourages the mistaken view -- seemingly prevalent -- that font vendors are the only people who care about font licensing. Our customers and clients also care about font licensing and about managing exposure of their assets. John Hudson
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