[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild

[Nicolas Mailhot]

> So if the person who is doing the embedding intends for others to be able to trivially separate out the font, or uses an
> embedding process that makes that simple, then they should be sure that the basic license metadata is also included.

There can be no question of intent here.
The embedded bits are covered by the OFL. Therefore, whether the embedder intends for them to be extracted or not, the legal information must be conveyed to the recipients (either as part of the embedded font metadata, or as a separate document).

If you allow intent here, the OFL clauses have no force anymore. At least that's how I understand the legalities.

IMHO the FAQ should make it crystal-clear that all OFL provisions apply to any part of the font even if it's embedded somewhere else. What they don't apply to is the document the font part is embedded in.

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