El Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:56:52 +0100 Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> escribió:
> Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 16:34 -0500, Liam R E Quin a écrit : > > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 11:09 -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ed Trager <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > T[...] > > > It would be trivial to write a FontForge script that generated an > > > SVG font anytime someone uploaded a new .otf, .ttf or .sfd file. > > > > You'd have to make sure the license allowed redistribution of the > > font in a different format and under the same name, of course. > > Note also that all hinting is lost, as well as opentype tables... > > Which is why the result should be a plain SVG file, not a "SVG font" > or anything that duplicated the whole font, to avoid font > embedding/derivative work licensing clauses (GPL... :() > > (sure a preview is a derivative work but I doubt a *limited* > derivative work will ever be a legal problem) > I think that font preview is not a derivative work from the font (font as software), like a binary code is not derivative work from the compiler, or .doc is not derivative of microsoft word
