[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild

[Vernon Adams]

On 5 Jun 2013, at 06:06, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> I personally see the mere use of @font-face as a form of embedding not
> distribution


I think it's worth understanding that any use of a Libre font file in the 'public space' is a 'distribution'. That seems to me to be at the heart of the Libre paradigm and the rationale of the OFL.

Using Libre fonts within css @font-face rules is a good example. When a font is used like this, it becomes 'open' to be fairly easily and directly downloaded, and used. This is exactly why the type industry got so alarmed by @font-face 3-4 years ago. Bad for proprietary font distribution. Good for Libre font distribution.
I would say that embedding is also a 'distribution' too, as more and more, embedded objects are becoming routinely more open to extraction.

-v