- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:18:12 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>, Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Personally, I'm not comfortable with formats that add more licensing > information, even if the corresponding standard says it can be > ignored. It seems quite easy to construct a case where the browser, by > ignoring digital rights in the files, breaks DMCA-like laws and is > therefore a "circumvention device". I'm not convinced that the > standard would trump the law in court. Since this would be an OT font format decision, at least it would be something debated in a forum in which the opinions of font developers and vendors are not 'pragmatically irrelevant'. Come on over to our standards process. I'm going to be happier fighting this out in ISO/IEC 14496-22 than in the W3C. So here's a question: if the OpenType / Open Font format specification already included licensing information of the kind that you wish to avoid, would you have implemented TTF/OTF font linking in Opera? From which follows the question: if such licensing information were to be added to the OpenType / Open Font format specification, would you remove support for TTF/OTF font linking in Opera? These are not necessarily 'pragmatic' questions, but at this point I'm interested to know where leverage might apply. John Hudson
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