Confused About Free Fonts
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I'd like to use the Kanji Stroke Order font found at the following site but I'm not sure if it is free or not: https://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/
As far as I know, that is the only font which shows the stroke order for Japanese characters, and I would really like to use it for my studies.
Regarding other fonts, I've seen some recommended free fonts in the forum but some of them have different kinds of licenses and I'm not sure how to determine if a font is free or not.
The zip file contains a file called copyright.txt, which contains the following text. It looks free to me.
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Ulrich Apel, the AAAA project and the Wadoku project
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the author may be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
That's a minor variant of the 3-clause (Modified) BSD License, so yes, it's free.
Alright, thanks to both of you for letting me know. I've no idea about licenses LOL, but I didn't want to use a non-free font.
A good place for learning about licenses is http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
And of course Wikipedia.
I didn't realise there were so many types! Thanks for the link.
You're welcome. Actually even that's a small subset. Having all these licenses is a huge problem.
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