<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>E<br><div><br><div><div>Op 28 mei 2010, om 10:17 heeft Marcos Diaz het volgende geschreven:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Whatever, the final result (at the user side) should be the same with both libre and non-libre fonts. Why not believe in the utopia if its result in a better implementation?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/28 Alexandre Prokoudine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com">alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Marcos Diaz wrote:<br> <br> > My point of view is that we should assume the user is working with libre<br> > fonts<br> <br> </div>That make how much? 0.05% of all existing fonts?<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Alexandre<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> CREATE mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marcos Díaz <<a href="mailto:markos@nathive.org">markos@nathive.org</a>><br>Nathive project developer<br><a href="http://www.nathive.org/">http://www.nathive.org/</a><br> _______________________________________________<br>CREATE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>