- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:47:30 +0200
- To: "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "Paul Nelson (ATC)" <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, freyjkell@gmail.com
2008/4/21 John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>: > > > Doing so would have some legal implications > > I think this is only practical if the license data within fonts > accurately reflects the EULA that applies to those fonts. I think this is not practical because DRM bits can never match the complexity of EULAs. There will always be cases where the license/law says one thing and the DRM says another. Also, it is not possible to distribute a free software DRM implementation, because of laws fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996 or similar such as the DMCA, unless the license disclaims them - like the GPLv3 section 3. I doubt WebKit and Mozilla will be moving to the GPLv3, so anything with license data in fonts, other than including the text of the license, is going to be a problem. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. -- Regards, Dave
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