- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:05:07 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote: > > > I would just trust the UA would do what it's supposed to do (unless a + hacker modified Firefox, but that's a different story). I don't think we + can prevent this with font licensing - a hacked Firefox version would + still be seen as Firefox, licensing restrictions won't help. There is a hint in the above that "hacking" has negative connotations. In the open sources world, creating variants is called "forking" and the ability to do so is considered a desirable feature by people like the Free Software Foundation. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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