Good evening.

For the time being I only embed OFL-fonts in my Web-projects, mostly ttf, some otf. Never WOFF nor WOFF2.

A font author's agreement to this practice is explicitly given, when the font is licensed under the conditions of the OFL. Many fonts, and even some of high quality, that I find on dafont are just “gratuitous”. Neither for these, nor for fonts published under GPL, we can offhand assume that the author authorizes embedding.

I cannot know if the dafont team is willing to invest time and effort into a modification for more clarity. And I cannot know by which ways a font author's work arrived in the dafont base. In my opinion, the question “Do you allow embedding of your font?” should explicitly be answered by a font author who does not want the OFL. And the dafont site should notify about the possibility or impossibility to embed a font, when it is not an OFL-font.

I know that I can contact the font author directly and I already did that. Imagine the flood of questions, when Web-designers become implicitly honest...