- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:26:53 -0400
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Håkon Wium Lie<howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach John Daggett: > > > Is a user agent required to treat the contents of the <allow> element > > the same way EOT root strings are supposed to be handled? If it is, I > > would object, otherwise I'm quite happy with a format that includes > > metadata that indicates any manner of licensing information, including > > root strings. > > I'm not comfortable having root strings, even if the specification > says they can be ignored. For one, we could see heavy lobbying to > remove the "can be ignored" part in the next version of the > specification. Second, some judge somewhere could rule that his laws > (DMCA perhaps) trumps any specification and that implementations > therefore must "honor" root strings. Don't enforce the root string, just refuse to render a font with a root string at all. Anywhere. Root strings then die a quick death in EOT Lite. Cheers, T
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