- From: Ben Ward <ben@ben-ward.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:22:32 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 17 Aug 2006, at 17:00, Jan Brasna wrote: > What comes to my mind is licensing. I haven't found anything about > this in the specs - does that mean that the font file has to have > some kind of a free licensing scheme to be effectively put online > for usage like this? It's perhaps the same as any other licensing issue of the web, such as licenses to reproduce images on a website. In practice, I'm not sure I see it as a CSS spec issue to fix that problem. That said, it was discussed at length a few months ago. As I see it, there are many potential routes for font foundries to control the redistribution of their fonts: Centralising the location and only allowing downloads when the referrer header is on an approved list of licensed sites? DRM? Trust and honesty? I think so long as the CSS implementation doesn't do anything to impede such hypothetical authentication/control mechanisms that commercial foundries could implement at any point, it doesn't need to do anything more. Ben
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