- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:53:28 -0700
- CC: www-font@w3.org
Dirk Pranke wrote: > Also, as an observation, it's not clear to me that the .webfont > proposal offers anything particularly compelling over embedding the > metadata directly into the OTF/TTF file, apart from the desktop > interop issue The desktop interop issue is a major one for many font makers. And it goes both ways: preventing casual piracy of 'downloadable fonts' and also preventing casual upload of desktop fonts not licensed for web use. By 'casual' I mean not requiring any conscious step between observing the license and breaking it. JH
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