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Noto CJK fonts
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Understanding License #139

Closed svapreddy closed 6 years ago

svapreddy commented 6 years ago

Hi Team, Thanks for the great font. It's very useful. I did a POC application(.NET) that generates a PDF of user-provided content using Noto fonts (Unmodified Noto Sans CJK and Noto Sans). It is working great in displaying characters from multiple languages.

I picked all the fonts I need from Noto Sans and Noto Sans CJK. And also included the license file in the resources folder where fonts are placed. Because, it is a .NET application, during build all the fonts will be packaged/embedded as resources into application binary file, including the license.

Now, if we ship this application to Production do we have to take any extra measures to be compliant with the license.

In the license file, I can see

2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user. We are confused a little due to the line as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

Can you please clarify this.

twardoch commented 6 years ago

https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ofl-faq_web

svapreddy commented 6 years ago

@twardoch Thank you for the link. As per the QA, what I am doing is enough and no need of extra actions to comply with the license. Could you please confirm, looking for an expert advice. Thanks in advance.

dougfelt commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately, any interpretation of the language of the licence could be considered legal advice. And that means I can't provide clarification, my employer won't allow me to say something that could be construed as limiting or changing the terms of the license. You basically have to trust your reading of the license, or find yourself a lawyer.