The specific case would be the inclusion of user documentation, specifically end-user-documentation.pdf, which is now being generated in both English and Japanese. The PDFs formerly were generated using whatever Forrest used as the default font, but now they will be using the IPA family of fonts. A link to the IPA license can be found in CONNECTORS-387. It is redistributable, and open-source, but you are not allowed to make any changes to it, as I understand the license.
Karl On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Apache has well-defined descriptions of what licenses open-sourced >> software can have to be redistributed. But does anyone know whether >> this applies to fonts that get embedded in a PDF when the PDF is >> generated? As I understand it, unless the font itself is marked >> "redistributable" in code, it will not be embedded in the PDF, so >> there should be no actual legal issues. But what does Apache say >> about requiring the sources to those fonts to be distributed along >> with the PDF that was generated from it, and getting the font license >> approved? I'd hope there was some kind of exception for this case >> since otherwise it would be near impossible to distribute PDFs. > > What's the specific case you're thinking about? A specific PDF you > want to include in a ManifoldCF release? Discussing licensing in > abstract is often pretty difficult. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting
