On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:35:29AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hi Gurkan and the debian fonts team-- > > What if http://fonts.debian.net/ could generate web font files (in at > least the standard eot form, maybe in woff as well) and publish them > under a stable URL?
EOT is not standard, and is only supported by Internet Explorer. > If this could be done with a commitment to avoid tracking users (and > maybe also to offer it optionally under https to avoid mixed-content > warnings), it would make it very easy for web authors to use any font in > debian, just by specifying it in their CSS. > > This would be similar to Google's Web Fonts directory [0], but without > the surveillance, and with a focus on free fonts. Google Web Fonts directory has a focus on free (libre) fonts; all its fonts are licensed under OFL v1.1 or Apache 2.0 (not sure if the are now accepting other free licenses). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
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