- From: Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:55:03 -0700
- To: <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
- CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
As likely as that might be, I don't think it's necessary to know or factor it in to our thinking. If conversion tool requirements are established, then it doesn't matter who's doing the converting, right? -C On May 11, 2010, at 5:40 PM, John Hudson wrote: > Sylvain Galineau wrote: > >> In practice, will web authors use a tool to generate a WOFF file, or will the >> font maker give them that WOFF file ? Does the author get a TTF with a license >> to make WOFFs out of it but only those can be used on the web, or does he get >> a no-web-use/no-conversion license for the TTF version and a separate WOFF with >> a web-use license ? > > All the commercial font vendors with whom I've discussed this are > working on the latter model, i.e. no conversion licenses, WOFFs > delivered direct from the foundry. I'm sure there will be exceptions, > including customer-specific licenses to permit conversion, just as there > are special licenses that already permit customers to do things that the > general retail EULA does not, but I'm pretty sure that the main > licensing model for web fonts from commercial vendors will involve WOFF > files from the vendor, most likely serialised and with customer-specific > meda-data in both font and wrapper. > > JH >
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