- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:19:39 +0100
- To: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Cc: (wrong string) åkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Michael Day:
> > This is good compromise, I believe. We identify a few strategic bytes
> > in TTF/OT files, and XOR them. This makes them uninstallable without
> > special tools.
>
> On Linux any font recognisable by FreeType can be installed.
>
> We would need to extend FreeType to support these DRM'd fonts in order
> that Mozilla, Prince, and other web user-agents that run on Linux could
> load them.
The user agent could flip the bits back after downloading and before
handing them over to FreeType, no?
> Ergo, the DRM'd fonts would in short order be installable on Linux and
> other platforms using FreeType such as Solaris.
This is a danger with all protection schemes; the world around them
isn't static.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:29:22 UTC