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List: freedesktop-openfontlibrary
Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: www-font: WebOTF Proposal
From: Chris Lilley <chris () w3 ! org>
Date: 2009-08-10 16:15:12
Message-ID: 995606965.20090810181512 () w3 ! org
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On Friday, August 7, 2009, 6:21:45 PM, Chris wrote:
CF> Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
CF> ....
>> My concern would be that some key extended metadata fields which are
>> encouraged to be treated by the UA as the primary source of information
>> about the font remain optional:
>> - MAY have license text and/or URL to licensing info.
>> - MAY have copyright text.
>> - MAY have trademark text.
>> These should really be switched to "MUST". I don't see why you would
>> want to distribute a font where this information is not present. If
>> fallback on the TTF/OTF name table entries is then used, why not make
>> sure to populate the extended metadata fields in the first place?
CF> ...
CF> I agree these should be switched to These should really be switched to
CF> "MUST". FOSS licences typically require that a copy of the licence
CF> always be distributed with the font - in an embedded/linked font this
CF> pretty well has to be *in* the font since that is the only file that
CF> gets downloaded.
Certainly agree for the license.
For the copyright - what if its copyleft? And for trademark, I can see that as a MAY.
--
Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org
Technical Director, Interaction Domain
W3C Graphics Activity Lead
Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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