Business Card Usage

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Copyright Issue

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- Noto Sans Font

Please provide any additional information below.
- Hi, 
 We would like to use noto sans font for our business card. But as far as I checked, below APACHE license needed to be included when the font is used. 

APPENDIX: How to apply the Apache License to your work.

      To apply the Apache License to your work, attach the following
      boilerplate notice, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]"
      replaced with your own identifying information. (Don't include
      the brackets!)  The text should be enclosed in the appropriate
      comment syntax for the file format. We also recommend that a
      file or class name and description of purpose be included on the
      same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
      identification within third-party archives.

 does this copyright phrase needed to be inserted wherever i use the license? 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by media...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2015 at 7:42

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The Apache 2.0 license states the following: "Work" shall mean the work of 
authorship, whether in Source or Object form, made available under the License, 
as indicated by a copyright notice that is included in or attached to the work 
(an example is provided in the Appendix below).

Printing business cards is neither Source nor Object form, meaning that there 
is no need to convey the license. The license pertains to the font resources 
themselves, not the documents that are created through their use.

Original comment by ken.lu...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2015 at 1:29

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 Thank you for the prompt reply. I have one more question. 

 We are planning to use the noto sans font to our ppt(power point file) and manuals if possible. Could you possibly confirm that we could use the noto sans font without including copyright phrase into our files? 

Original comment by media...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2015 at 5:46

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Including the license and copyright statements is about distribution of the 
fonts themselves, and does not pertain to documents that are made using the 
fonts.

Original comment by ken.lu...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2015 at 4:57

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As Ken noted already, you can use the fonts without including the license.

We understand that the Apache license was not written with fonts in mind.  The 
spirit of the license applies here.  We are working to improve this.

Original comment by beh...@chromium.org on 25 Mar 2015 at 7:43

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Original comment by behdad@google.com on 26 Mar 2015 at 7:03

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