- From: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:53:32 +0100
- To: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
2009/6/22 Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>: > > I'm not sure this is as impractical as you suggest. Vendors such as Monotype > would continue to deliver "normal" fonts, but customers wishing to use those > fonts on a web server would be required (by the EULA) to use a tool that > replaces the names with "No Trespassing" signs -- how is this more > burdensome than having to use a tool that converts the OTF font to EOT? While Adobe has stated its intention to license web fonts for user conversion, other font developers have stated their intention to vend "pre-locked" EOT files. However, the same applies: they would have to implement a EOT conversion process on their servers which could just as easily be a renaming process.
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