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2026

Archived version 1 of 2. This is how the model read before it was corrected. It is shown read only. The current version is here.

IPA Font License

Also known as IPA, IPA Font License, IPA Font License Agreement v1.0.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/IPA

Permissions

  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Original version offer from the text Giving every recipient of a modified work a way back to the original: the unmodified version itself, a difference file, or instructions for obtaining it.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
    • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Original version offer from the text Giving every recipient of a modified work a way back to the original: the unmodified version itself, a difference file, or instructions for obtaining it.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
    • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Terminates on breach
Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THIS LICENSED PROGRAM IS PROVIDED BY THE LICENSOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTY AS TO THE LICENSED PROGRAM OR ANY DERIVED PROGRAM, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE DISCLAIMED.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXTENDED, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO; PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTED GOODS OR SERVICE; DAMAGES ARISING FROM SYSTEM FAILURE; LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF EXISTING DATA OR PROGRAM; LOST PROFITS), 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 INSTALLATION, USE, THE REPRODUCTION OR OTHER EXPLOITATION OF THE LICENSED PROGRAM OR ANY DERIVED PROGRAM OR THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHTS GRANTED HEREUNDER, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Additional clauses

The Licensor grants to the Recipient a license to use the Licensed Program in any and all countries in accordance with each of the provisions set forth in this Agreement. However, any and all rights underlying in the Licensed Program shall be held by the Licensor. In no sense is this Agreement intended to transfer any right relating to the Licensed Program held by the Licensor except as specifically set forth herein or any right relating to any trademark, trade name, or service mark to the Recipient. If a Derived Program is Redistributed pursuant to Paragraph 4 and 7 of the preceding Article, the following conditions must be met : (1) The following must be also Redistributed together with the Derived Program, or be made available online or by means of mailing mechanisms in exchange for a cost which does not exceed the total costs of postage, storage medium and handling fees: (a) a copy of the Derived Program; and (b) any additional file created by the font developing program in the course of creating the Derived Program that can be used for further modification of the Derived Program, if any. (2) It is required to also Redistribute means to enable recipients of the Derived Program to replace the Derived Program with the Licensed Program first released under this License (the "Original Program"). Such means may be to provide a difference file from the Original Program, or instructions setting out a method to replace the Derived Program with the Original Program. (3) The Recipient must license the Derived Program under the terms and conditions of this Agreement. (4) No one may use or include the name of the Licensed Program as a program name, font name or file name of the Derived Program. (5) Any material to be made available online or by means of mailing a medium to satisfy the requirements of this paragraph may be provided, verbatim, by any party wishing to do so. If the Recipient Redistributes the Licensed Program pursuant to Paragraph 6 of the preceding Article, the Recipient shall meet all of the following conditions: (1) The Recipient may not change the name of the Licensed Program. (2) The Recipient may not alter or otherwise modify the Licensed Program. (3) The Recipient must attach a copy of this Agreement to the Licensed Program. The Licensor is under no obligation to respond to any technical questions or inquiries, or provide any other user support in connection with the installation, use or the Reproduction and Other Exploitation of the Licensed Program or Derived Programs thereof. The term of this Agreement shall begin from the time of receipt of the Licensed Program by the Recipient and shall continue as long as the Recipient retains any such Licensed Program in any way. 2. Notwithstanding the provision set forth in the preceding Paragraph, in the event of the breach of any of the provisions set forth in this Agreement by the Recipient, this Agreement shall automatically terminate without any notice. In the case of such termination, the Recipient may not use or conduct Reproduction and Other Exploitation of the Licensed Program or a Derived Program: provided that such termination shall not affect any rights of any other Recipient receiving the Licensed Program or the Derived Program from such Recipient who breached this Agreement. IPA may publish revised and/or new versions of this License. In such an event, the Recipient may select either this Agreement or any subsequent version of the Agreement in using, conducting the Reproduction and Other Exploitation of, or Redistributing the Licensed Program or a Derived Program. Other matters not specified above shall be subject to the Copyright Law of Japan and other related laws and regulations of Japan. 2. This Agreement shall be construed under the laws of Japan.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/IPA.html
Legal code
https://opensource.org/license/IPA
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
Attribution name
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
SPDX identifier
IPA on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
IPA

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    5 changes

    • changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:originalVersionOffer, dalicc:rename]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:originalVersionOffer, dalicc:rename]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "The Recipient must attach a copy of this Agreement to the Licensed Program."

    • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "The Recipient must attach a copy of this Agreement to the Licensed Program."

    • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:originalVersionOffer, dalicc:rename]

      was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:originalVersionOffer, dalicc:rename]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "The Recipient must attach a copy of this Agreement to the Licensed Program."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "In no sense is this Agreement intended to transfer ... any right relating to any trademark, trade name, or service mark to the Recipient"

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Fonts and documentation).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.