- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:48:04 -0400
- To: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On further consideration, I just wanted to say that "I expect all foundries to start offering web font licenses within six months" may not be so crazy. It depends on what you mean by "web font licenses." If you mean "offer licenses that allow folks to link to naked TTF/OTF fonts on web servers" (which is how I interpreted the original post) then yeah, that's not happening any time soon. But if you mean "offer a license that permits or enables SOME kind of web usage," then yeah, at least most foundries will probably be there within six months. I'll also note that some of the solutions being cited as examples of licensing for TTF/OTF on web servers are not exactly what it sounds like from the casual references here. They are built on top of the "raw font" approach (as well as on top of EOT), but the solution vendors such as TypeKit are building in *lots* of other protections to make font vendors happy. Cheers, T
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