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