[OpenFontLibrary] Verbose license text in a font

[Chris Lilley]

Hello ,

Seen on www-font recently:

> Gentium won't work in IE8/Win 7 due to a regression bug in the
> t2embed library; as part of a Windows security patch the decision
> was made to not load fonts with more than 5K in a name table record,
> which includes fonts like Gentium which includes the entire Open
> Font License text in the license name record.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/1209.html

Is it common for license text to be included in a font (rather than a
link to the license)?

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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG