RE: FW: EOT-Lite File Format

Friday, July 31, 2009 Robert Callahan Robert@ocallahan.org:

 

>How do you expect authors to comply with your EULA requirement for access control, for IE<=8 users?

 

Rob, 

 

I didn’t interpret Ascender’s response to your questions about their EULAS as *requiring* access control.

According to Bill Davis’s previous post, the language in their EULA is, at present:

“reasonably restricts access to Font Software for use in any way by web pages not originating from the CUSTOMER Web Server (For example; by using referrer checking to prevent hotlinking or deeplinking).”

Well, what’s reasonable?

Once user agents that support EOTL are out in the market enforcing same-origin restrictions, it seems quite reasonable for me to do nothing at all at the server level except let those browsers do their thing and *not* specifically enable linking in the htaccess file.

And I think this would be a more effective example than referrer checking.

Lawyers! 

 

Regards,

 

rich

 

 

From: www-font-request@w3.org [mailto:www-font-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Robert O'Callahan
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:49 PM
To: info@ascenderfonts.com
Cc: www-font
Subject: Re: FW: EOT-Lite File Format

 

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Bill Davis <info@ascenderfonts.com> wrote:

Robert, first of all, we can only speak for Ascender. Every other type designer & foundry can and will have their own EULA.

But I don't understand why you are bringing up rootstrings. They are not part of the EOT Lite specification.

I think you are overly complicating things. Or maybe I am missing your point?


 

How do you expect authors to comply with your EULA requirement for access control, for IE<=8 users?

I see only two realistic options:
1) Referer checking
2) Rootstrings in the font

Referer checking sucks. Rootstrings suck less.

Rob
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