:-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TEH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Jul-2007 19:57 Subject: Re: [ATypI] Disallowing Font Modification To: ATypI member discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All, I have to emphasize that Fontlab is not interested in DRM nor in policing font licenses. We are interested in making it as easy as possible for people to be honest - i.e. to adhere to their font EULA. In our view the way this should work is that whenever a user opens a font in any program that is capable of using or modifying a font the font EULA should be checked against the intended usage and the user notified if there is a discrepancy. It would be impossible to check every EULA attribute against every possible usage, so we have hammered out an abstract of what the people who participated considered to be the most important EULA features. This electronic EULA abstract (EEULAA) idea has been scripted by the folks at Paragraph into an application which can create an OpenType table that includes all the EEULAA information and add it to an OpenType font. Our idea at this point is to create a Read-Only EEULAA DLL which we will license freely to any application developer who wants to incorporate it into their product. Many companies, including both major font manager developers, have expressed a keen interest in doing this. It should be ready by the end of this year. Of course Fontlab font editor products will have Read-Write EEULAA capabilities so that font foundries can put EEULAAs into their font products and modify them as necessary. We hope other font editor products will follow suite. From the practical viewpoint we envision a scenario like this: User opens a font in, say, TypeTool. As the font opens TypeTool checks the EEULAA and sees that it doesn't allow modifications. It pops up a message window which says "The EULA for this font doesn't allow modification. If you would like to purchase a license extension for font modification please browse to www.fontfoundry.com/licenses". The user browses to fontfoundry.com and chooses a license extension. They pay for it; upload their font file; the EEULAA is appropriately updated; the font file is sent back to them; and they proceed with their job. Regards, Ted Harrison Fontlab Ltd. _______________________________________________ members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
