- From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:15:17 -0400
- To: "Mikko Rantalainen" <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday, June 22, 2009 6:44 AM Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > > There's one major difference between OpenType and TrueType patents and > EOT: the browser is expected to "decrypt" (unscramble) the font file > (possibly needing the patent license) but OpenType and TrueType fonts > are used by the operating system. The browser vendors do not have > problem with those patents. > > In addition, the patent(s) on EOT is meant to be used as "security" > feature preventing the "decryption" of font. > How can a royalty-free, unrestricted patent license for font compression (that is part of the publicly available specification) be "meant to be used as "security" feature preventing the "decryption" of font"? Vladimir > -- > Mikko >
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