[OpenFontLibrary] Should we offer EOT fonts (hosted from out the USA?)

[Liam R E Quin]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 21:18 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> 
> > Despite popular television programmes :) in fact what happens first is
> > you generally get a cease-and-desist letter.  There's no point suing
> > people who have no money, as taking people to court is expensive.
> 
> Well, presumably Microsoft, Bitstream and Monotype is not as evil as MPAA... :)


The primary difference is that these organizations *want* to see
increased use of EOT as a font distribution mechanism.  That is
why Microsoft and Agfa/Monotype opened up the spec (or started to).

As to Dave's question, no, use is not necessarily infringing; it's
implementing that's generally infringing.  If I have a patent on
a way to make a sharper chisel, the people using the chisel are
not infringing my patent, only the people making them.  But if I
can patent a way of holding a chisel in your right hand and tapping
it gently with a blunt instrument in the other, then people using
the chisel would be infringing...  so, it depends on the patent,
I think.  But I can't speculate further without concrete information.

Liam


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