Arphic Technology
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Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. ( ), or Arphic Technology ( ), is a type foundry based in New Taipei, Taiwan founded in May 19901.
Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. ( ), or Arphic Technology ( ), is a type foundry based in New Taipei, Taiwan founded in May 1990.
Fonts
Arphic PL Fonts
Arphic Technology is the creator of the Arphic PL Fonts (where "PL" means "public license(d)", or in Chinese: or ). The fonts include AR PL KaitiM Big5 ( , AR PL Mingti2L Big5 ( ), AR PL SungtiL GB ( ) and AR PL KaitiM GB ( ), which were released in 19991 under the Arphic Public License. They are used by Debian-derived Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu), as well as by most LaTeX distributions, as part of their default CJK fonts. In 20101, Arphic Technology released another two fonts, AR PL MingU20-L ( ) and AR PL BaoSong2GBK ( ), which are available under a revised Arphic Public License that restricts distribution of the fonts to non-profit use only.
Meiryo
As a partner of C&G Inc., Arphic Technology was one of the designers of kanji in C&G's Meiryo font, intended for Japanese.
Arphic Public License
The "Arphic Public License" published by Arphic Technology in 1999 was recognized by Free Software Foundation as a copyleft, free software license and incompatible with the GNU General Public License. But as it is used almost only for fonts, the incompatibility does not cause a problem in that use. The revised Arphic Public License published in 2010 doesn't allow commercial use, thus is non-free.
See also
List of CJK fonts List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
Arphic Public License (1999 free version) Arphic Public License (2010 non-commercial version)
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