KanjiVG licence changed to CC-Attribution-Share Alike

[Alexandre Courbot]

Last week I got the opportunity to discuss face-to-face with Ulrich
and we brought the licence issue to the table. Eventually, we agreed
to change the KanjiVG licence from Attribution-Non Commercial-Share
Alike to Attribution-Share Alike. This means usage of KanjiVG in
commercial work is now allowed, provided this work is redistributed
under a free licence. By this move, there should not be any more
problem to include KanjiVG into Linux distributions such as Debian or
to link it to GPL projects.

I also remind that people wanting to use KanjiVG in a commercial
project but for whom the Creative Commons is not acceptable can
negociate a special licence agreement with Ulrich, who owns the
copyright on the data.

I hope this change will make it possible for more people to use
KanjiVG and help improving it!

Alex.

[Christoph Burgmer]

Am Freitag, 18. September 2009 schrieb Alexandre Courbot:
> Last week I got the opportunity to discuss face-to-face with Ulrich
> and we brought the licence issue to the table. Eventually, we agreed
> to change the KanjiVG licence from Attribution-Non Commercial-Share
> Alike to Attribution-Share Alike. This means usage of KanjiVG in
> commercial work is now allowed, provided this work is redistributed
> under a free licence. By this move, there should not be any more
> problem to include KanjiVG into Linux distributions such as Debian or
> to link it to GPL projects.

Thanks a lot Dr. Apel for making this bold move. I do hope that this license
both helps spread new projects and encourages people to contribute to KanjiVG.
Thanks Alexandre for your commitment to this subject.

> I also remind that people wanting to use KanjiVG in a commercial
> project but for whom the Creative Commons is not acceptable can
> negociate a special licence agreement with Ulrich, who owns the
> copyright on the data.

As I know uncounted hours of work and much personal dedication went into
creating this data, I do hope that this project also gets its recognition from
the commercial world. Free (as in speech) and commercial projects can and
should benefit a lot from each other.

Happy news for the upcoming weekend.
-Christoph