[OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: www-font: WebOTF Proposal

[Chris Lilley]

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.




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