On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Erwin Dokter <erwin(a)darcoury.nl> wrote:
This is completly a non-issue. CSS Font stacks merely
*refer* to a font
already installed (and paid for) on a reader's computer. There are no legal
issues arising form this whatsoever.
You missed the point. The issue is ideological, not legal.
When it comes to selecting fonts, it is natural in web
design to first refer
to the most commonly installed fonts available. If you were to specify only
free fonts, they would have no effect on the 99% of our reader's computers,
because they don't have those font installed to begin with. In short,
preferring free fonts in a font stack is utterly pointless.
Surely it's closer to 98%.[1] ;(
Actually, I've seen plenty of sites that specify fonts with lesser
expected penetration first, usually fonts distributed with Mac OSes
but not Windows.
The drawback to specifying the non-free font first is that those of us
who have both still get the non-free font.
[1]: Non-Android Linux has a bit over 2%, according to
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm