- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:16 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
At 14:31 +0200 13/11/08, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > >What does "reasonably strong obfuscation mechanism" mean? If it means >MTX compression that is licensed without field-of-use restrictions what >does it really accomplish over plain gzip compression? I think the point of something which is there explicitly to make the point that the object (font, in this case) is not freely re-distributable, is that, in removing it manually, you know you are circumventing the license, and doing something wrong. It's like the garden gate on my garden. It's not high, and not locked, but if you jump over it, or open it and walk through it, you know you are walking onto someone's property. Gzip is a general compression utility, not designed to make this point. But we don't know anything complex or patented, merely focused, to make it. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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