Re: enclose font in website

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:03:44 +0000, rf wrote:
It would be the same vector graphics, but not the same actual data.
Yes. Same as if you used a PDF writer to produce a PDF file. The TTF
file is used during the creating process.

Actually, I believe PDFs embed the actual data directly from the font,
and thus a PDF using a particular font is considered a derivative work of
that font. Well, I don't know if this has been tested in court, but font
companies will tell you you can't use their fonts in a PDF without their
permission. I think, though I'm not sure, that an SVG or similar file
that included the outlines of particular glyphs (but without the hinting
or other stuff you get in a proper font file) wouldn't be restricted by
the font's copyright.

[1] Compare this to the GIF file format. Crikey, I can't even remember
who invented it but they copyrighted the file format. If you were to
write a program that produced output in GIF format then you had to
obtain a licence from the copyright holder. Everybody of course ignored
this (illegaly) and the copyright actually expired a few years ago.

The issue with GIF files was actually a patent on the compression
algorithm used. You can't copyright a file format (you could copyright a
specification, but that doesn't prevent people from implementing the file
format; you could provide your spec only to people who sign an agreement
not to implement it, but that wouldn't prevent independent re-
implementations).
.

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