KANJI SCHOLAR: LICENCES AND NOTICES =================================== Kanji Scholar, its code, design, artwork, music and sound effects are © Unseen Forms Ltd. All rights reserved. The data and fonts listed below are not ours. They are used under their own open licences, which still apply to them in this app, and we claim no copyright over them. 1. KANJI AND KANA DATA (data/kanji.json, data/strokes/, data/kana.json) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This data is an adaptation of the sources below, and is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ You may copy and adapt it under that licence's terms. Stroke paths and stroke order: KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, https://kanjivg.tagaini.net Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ (which permits adaptations to be shared under later versions, here 4.0). Changes: stroke paths extracted for the Jōyō kanji and the kana, each stroke's type mapped to a brush finish, two-kana combinations laid out on one pad, and the data split into chunks. Meanings, readings, frequency and school grades: KANJIDIC2 © James William Breen and the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG). Project: https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project Used in accordance with the EDRDG licence: https://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Changes: Jōyō kanji selected, on'yomi converted to hiragana, meanings capitalised and trimmed to four. The data is refreshed from the current KANJIDIC2 release with each build of the app. JLPT levels: Jonathan Waller's JLPT Resources http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/ Licence: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), per http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/sharing/ Taken from kanji-data by David Gouveia (MIT licence, notice in section 6). "Most common first" order: kanji-frequency by scriptin https://github.com/scriptin/kanji-frequency Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Changes: the mean of each kanji's rank among the Jōyō kanji across the news, Wikipedia and Aozora Bunko corpora. Official readings by school stage: 出典：「音訓の小・中・高等学校段階別割り振り表」（文部科学省） （https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/new-cs/1385768.htm）を加工して作成 Source: Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), used under the MEXT website terms of use (https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/1351168.htm, compatible with CC BY 4.0). Edited from the original: extracted from the PDF and matched to KANJIDIC2 readings. MEXT has not reviewed or endorsed this app. (School grades follow MEXT's 学年別漢字配当表, as recorded in KANJIDIC2.) 2. SCRIPT FORMS (data/scripts/) ------------------------------- Oracle bone, bronze, great seal, small seal and silk manuscript forms: Wikimedia Commons, Ancient Chinese Characters Project, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Ancient_Chinese_characters_project Public domain or CC0. Each file's page and licence is recorded next to it in data/scripts/.json. Brush and print forms: glyph outlines converted to SVG paths from these fonts, all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (text in section 5): Yuji Syuku Copyright 2021 The Yuji Project Authors (https://github.com/Kinutafontfactory/Yuji) Klee One Copyright 2020 The Klee Project Authors (https://github.com/fontworks-fonts/Klee) Zhi Mang Xing Copyright 2018 The ZhiMangXing Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/zhimangxing) Liu Jian Mao Cao Copyright 2018 The Liu Jian Mao Cao Project Authors (https://www.github.com/googlefonts/liujianmaocao) Zen Kurenaido Copyright 2021 The Zen Kurenaido Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/zen-kurenaido) BIZ UDMincho Copyright 2022 The BIZ UDMincho Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/morisawa-biz-ud-mincho) Character variants (e.g. 学 → 學), used to find the historic forms: the Unicode Unihan database, © Unicode, Inc., under the Unicode License v3 (text in section 7). 3. 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