Thanks for the advice; I've updated the ticket to include some useful references. As for writing up clauses restricting use of IPA within Apache, which is what you seem to have done for LEGAL-36, I'm not clear exactly where that should live. Does that go into the project license, or somewhere into the main Apache site?
Karl On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Looks good to me too! Signed off. > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >> We have an outstanding request to Apache Legal to determine whether we >> can distribute PDF files containing Japanese characters rendered with the IPA >> family of fonts. It would be great to know the answer prior to the release >> of >> ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating. A ticket is open (LEGAL-123) but no activity >> has taken place on it. > > See LEGAL-36 [1] for an example of how you can drive the process of > getting a license approved. > > In this case I'd recommend explaining how the IPA license fits the > existing license guidelines [2] and refer to other sources like [3] > and [4] where the license has already been reviewed. Since the license > has a copyleft nature, it would be good to highlight that the fonts > are clearly meant only to be used, not modified. > > For borderline cases like this, the legal team generally prefers to > avoid making too broad statements about allowed use. So suggesting a > narrow definition that only covers using such fonts in generated > documentation is probably easiest to get approved. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-36 > [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#criteria > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/IPAFontLicense > [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/05/msg00075.html > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting
