[OpenFontLibrary] OFL problems, IPA License annoyances

[Nicolas Spalinger]

>> OTOH there's the great work of Arne Gotje on CJK fonts which may > well provide the community with a .jp font family with more
>> re-usable and community-known licensing.
> 
> And also don't forget the work of the WenQuanYi project, http://wenq.org/

Thanks for pointing that out.
(it's hard for me to follow the development of this project as my
understanding of Japanese is well... extremely limited).

> But Japanese users may still argue that Gotje's project and the
> WenQuanYi project are both "Chinese" font projects and that there are
> stylistic differences among a subset of the Japanese Kanji ...
> 
> Gotje is addressing the (actually very few ... ) stylistic differences
> directly using TTC.  At this point in time, I'm not sure how or if the
> WQY project is dealing with the national glyph style differences ...

Good point, I should ping Arne about this someday.

> Best - Ed


-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org


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