For Approval: IPA Font License v1.0

[yuko.noguchi at mhmjapan.com]

 Dear all,

The link I have sent below appears to be broken.

Please use the ones below.

http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduser_license_draft090304.html
(clean revised draft of the IPA Font License v1.0)

http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduser_license_draft090304.pdf
(redline version from the last draft in PDF to check the revision)

Kind regards,

Yuko

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yuko.noguchi at mhmjapan.com [mailto:yuko.noguchi at mhmjapan.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:51 PM
> To: license-review at opensource.org
> Subject: RE: For Approval: IPA Font License v1.0
> 
> Dear OSI members:
>  
> After an intensive discussion with IPA, we are pleased to inform you
> that 
> we have revised the draft license in a significant way.
> 
> The full text of the revised draft license can be found at 
> the following
> URL:
> 
> http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduser_license_draft090304.html 
> (clean revised draft of the IPA Font License v1.0)
> 
> http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/enduser_license_draft090304.pdf 
> (redline version from the last draft in PDF to check the revision)
> 
> The following is the main change we have made in this draft.
> 
> 1)  IPA agrees that the difference file system adds complication.
> Therefore, IPA decides to drop all the requirements regarding the
> difference file, and thus, also deleted the definition of the 
> difference
> file.
> -  Article 1 paragraph 8 --> Deleted, 
> -  Article 2 paragraph 6 --> revised,
> -  Article 3 paragraph 1 --> revised.
> 
> 2)  given the discussion about the source code / binary code etc,
> we have asked to make available the font file as well as any 
> additional
> file created by the font developing program in the course of creating
> the Derived Program that can be used for further modification of the
> Derived Program, if any (See Article 3 Paragraph 1 (1)).
> 
> 3) Made the language in Article 2 paragraph 4 more clear to show that
> usage and distribution of SVG document file (such as PDF) that embeds
> Licensed Program as Embedded Fonts is not subject to this Agreement:
> however, if someone creates Derived Program by extracting 
> such Embedded
> Fonts, the Agreement shall apply. 
> 
> Hope you find these amendments to be an improvement to the draft
> license, and hope you find this license comply with the OSD.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Yuko Noguchi
>