- From: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:47:13 +0100
- To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Hi, John Hudson wrote: > > So instead you pretend there is some magical divide between free fonts > and non-free fonts. The idea that there should be multiple formats to > reflect the difference in IP or licensing status -- i.e. naked fonts > for free fonts and some different, probably wrapper format for > non-free fonts -- strikes me as daft. Agreed, it's daft, but I feel it is sad that an existing, working and simple technological solution that is within the current W3 recommendation has to die off solely to get font software publishers on board. Makes them look like martinets, whatever the reality. > You don't solve licensing differences via format differences: you find > a single format that allows different kinds of licensing. Well, perhaps. I thought for a while that single format could be OTF/TTF with a wrapper to express the licensing. Some others seemed to agree this had merit. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Weiner | http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html
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