[OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

[Dave Crossland]

Hi,

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.

Regards, Dave

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From: "प्रविण सातपुते" <pravin.d.s at gmail.com>
Date: 18 Mar 2010, 9:28 AM
Subject: warning while generating .ttf file
To: "fedora-fonts-list" <fedora-fonts-list at redhat.com>

"Windows has decided that fonts with 'name' tables bigger than 5K are
insecure and will refuse to load them. Don't ask me why they believe this.
This font has a name table which is 6948 bytes and is bigger than this
limit."

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontinfo.html#Names

.... 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 *are* 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.
.....


Most of the fonts has license included inside fonts itself.

version fontforge-20090923-2

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Pravin S

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