I agree. One thing is the implementation in the standard (no license issue there). The other thing are the actual use cases.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Maxim <[email protected]> wrote: > The standard should enable embed fonts. > Implementing test the legality of the introduction of a specific font to > assign both the software and at the end user. > > my 2 cents. > > 2010/5/28 Schrijver <[email protected]> >> >> Because than you have an implementation that is broken for all the >> non-Linux people who will mostly have fonts installed that don’t allow for >> embedding (like Leonard said) and will automatically be violating licences >> just by using the implementation. >> So I think checking is a good idea. A font database seems a hassle, isn’t >> it possible to use these permission bits to find out if you are allowed to >> embed a font? >> E >> -- Luka Čehovin http://luka.tnode.com _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
