Talk:Font Personalization

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Tharrson: I've put up my initial datapoints and then added serial number. Laurence has suggesed "account number" as another possible data point, but I'm not so sure of the necessity for that. Comments please.

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Duration of License

Lorp 15:03, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : Ted, you're right - we don't need account number. It's up to the creator of the serial number how to extract customer data from their own database from a single serial number. What does "period of time" mean? Trial period of a month's use?

Tharrson 19:24, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : It seems to me that some people might want to specify a duration of a license (60 days, 1 year, 5 years) instead of a beginning and ending date. Just a matter of preference how one expresses it I guess. A trial period might be one good example, but there might be other reasons for a time-limited license. For instance - suppose a license doesn't include permission for Service Bureau sharing, but a print shop needs the font for a single customer project. The font developer might want to offer a special 60-day license at a reduced price. Or say a company wants to use a font for a PDF ad campaign that will last a year and then they won't need it any more. Maybe the font EULA disallows PDF embedding, but the developer would be willing to offer a one-year license that would include P&P embedding permission. There is, of course, no way to enforce this time limit of the font user (yet), but perhaps that will come later. In the meantime font management and font editing software can at least check the FP table and warn the user if their license has expired.

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page format

Lorp 15:03, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : Mind if I rename this page "Font personalization data points"? And likewise, "EULA abstract data points".

Tharrson 19:24, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : Not at all. Please do.

Lorp 15:03, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : Also on these "data points" pages, I'd like to include (at the bottom) items considered but rejected, such as account number.

Tharrson 19:24, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : A good idea. Keep us from having to rehash or re-explain things later.

Lorp 19:36, 4 Sep 2004 (CEST) : Ok, I think I'll use the term "schema" instead of "data points". Any objection?

Tharrson 20:10, 9 Nov 2006 (UTC)In view of privacy concerns what about removing the Licensee Name field?

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