Re: FW: EOT-Lite File Format

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Thomas Lord<lord@emf.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:16 -0500, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
>> I am not a lawyer, as I stated before.  However, EOTL does not *allow*
>> you to ignore rootstrings, it *requires* you to.
>
> The opposite is apparently the case.
>
> An EOTC file with a non-nil rootstring has a
> version number distinct from EOTLs and apparently
> an EOTL processor MUST reject that file.

If it only support EOTLs, yes.  If it supports EOTC as well, it must
process it as an EOTC file, *not* an EOTL, if it wants to be
conforming.

I have no idea how this is opposite, or even relevant to, what I said, though.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 3 August 2009 19:15:16 UTC