- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:58:49 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
> My objection in part to using the license record of the name table of > particular font formats is that it implies a design principle wherein > for every single damn media file format of any kind, we need to add > new rules for the equivalent of interpreting a "license record of the > name table". > > A generic solution - a container format - a wrapper format - can nail > the issue once and for all across all media types. A generic solution would be fine but what you propose doesn't exist and would take a much longer time to agree upon and implement. I'm not really talking about "interpreting" anything, I'm only considering a common format for information that is passed through. Fonts just happen to already have a convenient place to put this information, which is not necessarily true for other media types. The problems of HTML5 video is a whole separate can of worms, the main issues there are *not* the same, the issues of conflict center around patent and royalty issues. Licensing concerns are also an issue but it's not the primary cause of the conflict. John
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