<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Interesting: this effects us, I think. A url of a license is not as ideal as the full license text, but I guess will have to do.</p>
<p>Regards, Dave</p>
<p><blockquote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "प्रविण सातपुते" <<a href="mailto:pravin.d.s@gmail.com">pravin.d.s@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 18 Mar 2010, 9:28 AM<br>Subject: warning while generating .ttf file<br>
To: "fedora-fonts-list" <<a href="mailto:fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com">fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com</a>><br><br>"Windows has decided that fonts with 'name' tables bigger than 5K are<br>insecure and will refuse to load them. Don't ask me why they believe this.<br>
This font has a name table which is 6948 bytes and is bigger than this limit."<br>
<br><a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontinfo.html#Names" target="_blank">http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontinfo.html#Names</a><br><br>.... MicroSoft recently (2009) released a security patch in which they decided
that font's whose 'name' table was bigger than 5K were insecure. Personally
I cannot fathom their logic, but that's OK, I usually can't. Unfortunately
many licenses <em>are</em> bigger than 5K, the OFL is for one, so it is now
"better" to include a link to a license website rather than the full text
of the license -- at least it is if you want your font to work on Windows. <br>.....<br><br><br>Most of the fonts has license included inside fonts itself.<br><br>version fontforge-20090923-2<br><br>-<br>Pravin S<br>
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