* Walter Landry:
> Paul Wise writes:
>> On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:16 -0500, P. J. McDermott wrote:
>>> Ping? Any thoughts on whether a font DRM modification tool would be
>>> legal to distribute and use in Debian given that the DRM is a simple bit
>>> field rather than an "effective" TPM such as
On 2024-02-05 at 10:34, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 06:05 -0500, P. J. McDermott wrote:
>
> > Paul Wise mentioned[8] on the fonts team list in 2021 a couple programs
> > ("embed"[9], a derivative "ttembed"[10], and "ttfpatch"[11]) that unset
> > the DRM/TPM bits, enabling full use of
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 06:05 -0500, P. J. McDermott wrote:
> Paul Wise mentioned[8] on the fonts team list in 2021 a couple programs
> ("embed"[9], a derivative "ttembed"[10], and "ttfpatch"[11]) that unset
> the DRM/TPM bits, enabling full use of the fonts. "embed" was written
> by a font
On 2024-02-02 at 22:18, Walter Landry wrote:
> This feels similar to pdf viewers that do not honor DRM bits like 'do
> not print', which Debian distributes. Here is an old email exchange.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/03/msg00308.html
>
> and a bug ticket that implemented DRM
Paul Wise writes:
> On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:16 -0500, P. J. McDermott wrote:
>> Ping? Any thoughts on whether a font DRM modification tool would be
>> legal to distribute and use in Debian given that the DRM is a simple bit
>> field rather than an "effective" TPM such as scrambling or
On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:16 -0500, P. J. McDermott wrote:
> [Resending to the list, as it apparently didn't go through earlier.]
It did go through.
> Ping? Any thoughts on whether a font DRM modification tool would be
> legal to distribute and use in Debian given that the DRM is a simple bit
>
[Resending to the list, as it apparently didn't go through earlier.]
Ping? Any thoughts on whether a font DRM modification tool would be
legal to distribute and use in Debian given that the DRM is a simple bit
field rather than an "effective" TPM such as scrambling or encryption?
FontForge of
Ping? Any thoughts on whether a font DRM modification tool would be
legal to distribute and use in Debian given that the DRM is a simple bit
field rather than an "effective" TPM such as scrambling or encryption?
FontForge of course can also do this, though it's not "primarily
designed or
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Hi,
I stumbled upon lintian's truetype-font-prohibits-installable-embedding
and opentype-font-prohibits-installable-embedding
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