On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 20:22 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: [...] > The last thing I want is Microsoft, Bitstream or Monotype - known EOT > patent holders - suing anyone involved in the Open Font Library for > patent infringement.
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. And in that case you'd either stop, or ask for permission. It's not clear to me you'd be violating any patent rights here though. An alternative is to ask for permission, and since Microsoft and the Agfa-Monotype-Linotype-ITC-Letraset-Conglomeration Inc both want to promote the use of EOT, they are actually likely to say yes, i'd say. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
