SOD and SODA License Agreement
as of July 24, 2007 - 3rd Public Release

PREAMBLE
These diagrams exist because of an enormous effort and at great personal sacrifice in terms of time and income of several persons. Ownership of these diagrams is not taken lightly, nor should the privilege of their free use be taken lightly. The benefits of using these diagrams comes with the responsibility of compliance with this license. Your responsible use makes future public release of larger collections tenable.

PLEASE READ: THIS GRANT OF LICENSE HAS CHANGED (3rd LICENSE VERSION)
Each new public release of diagrams from the SODER project has its own unique grant of license. With increasing investments of time and money into the project, this most recent grant of license intends to make more clear to the public how to freely use the diagrams while protecting owner's copyright. This license applies to the public release of the archive whose members constitute 1,654 GIF89a formatted stroke order diagram animations (SODAs) and 1,654 PNG formatted static stroke order diagrams (SODs). This release of the 1,654, supplants and replaces the experimental public release of the first 500 SODs and 500 SODAs created by the Stroke Order Diagram Editor-Retrographer (SODER), and also replaces the public release which followed containing 1,000 SODs and 1,000 SODAs. You should completely replace the older sets with this new one. Many of the 1,000 previously released SODs and 1,000 SODAs have been reedited and improved.

COMMERCIAL LICENSE NOTICE
Please note that this license does not apply to PRINT MEDIA or commercial use. You MUST have a commercial license to use these diagrams in any product which you will sell or otherwise financially benefit from. Rolomail Trading, James Rose, and The Kanji Cafe specifically reserve the exclusive right to use these diagrams in books or other printed media sold to the public unless you have explicit permission, or a commercial license. Commercial license will be granted inexpensively, so do not hesitate to inquire. For example: Permission has been granted to one publisher to use no more than 4 of the diagrams in a book at no cost as the book deals with Japanese teaching methods. Permission to use 177 of the diagrams was denied to a book author whose work was devoted to teaching Japanese kanji because he has yet to pursue a commercial license for use with the book he was writing despite the book being a commercial project. If you see these diagrams being used on the web or in a book, and do not see the name of the person or organization/ website using the diagrams listed here, they are not otherwise authorized, and we would appreciated being notified.

GRANT OF LICENSE
License is hereby granted to use these 1,654 Stroke Order Diagrams (SODs) and or 1,654 Stroke Order Diagram Animations (SODAs) on websites or in offline, non-commercial software such as free-ware, subject to each of these SIX specific LIMITATIONS:

1. YOU MUST PROVIDE A LINK TO YOUR WEBSITE, or software product which intends to use the diagrams, which then must appear on public display at the license page at www.kanjicafe.com/license.htm before your use is legal and compliant. Use of the 3rd public release of 1,654 kanji is unauthorized unless you have provided valid link information to KanjiCafe.com and it is subsequently on public display. To have your website linked to from the license page, and thereby comply with the license agreement, send the URL of your site or product to "jim (at) kanjicafe.com". If you are upgrading from the 2nd public release of 1,000 kanji, you must comply with this limitation (1) before using the new 1,654 kanji set.

   (This provision has been added to help familiarize the public with products and websites which make use of the project's SODAs and SODs in a legal manner, as well as to help promote legal use of the diagrams and animations in accordance with this license.)

   Licensees in good standing.
   • Innovative Language Learning in Tokyo has acquired a commercial license for use of all available SODs and SODAs on their pay-for-access Japanese language learning site JapanesePod101.com. License valid until April 1, 2010. They have also pledged to donate toward further SOD/SODA development. Their purchase of a commercial license motivated us to update the 3rd public release archive from 1,513 kanji to 1,654. No upgrade payments from other commericial users necessary until the 4th release.
   • Gianne Carlo Chiong in the Philippines has received a commercial license for the iPhone application Zen Nihongo. License valid until May 1, 2010.
   • Ted Cory in St. Petersburg Florida has received a commercial license for his Kanji-A-Day site and Kanji-Mail email course. License grants permission to collect advertising revenue. Ted has an additional license for a paid version of the site without advertising.
   • Howie and Akiko Hayman in San Diego have obtained a commercial license for their site Japanese Language Culture Food. License grants permission to collect advertising revenue.
   • Norman Lin granted special license to use 4 Stroke Order Diagrams (SODs) in one chapter of a book on mobile learning systems, strictly for illustrative purposes.
   • Michael Hominick's RenShuu.org at Duke University's Dept. of Asian & African Languages and Literature.
   • Nicholaus Shupe's jTango for the Web.
   • Jarkko Huijts's Jarkko's webhoek (in Dutch).
   • Jim Breen's WWWJDIC server in Australia and mirror sites around the world.
   • Cyril Bele's KanjiRoushi Japanese Language Tools (in French and English).
   • Eloy Villasclaras's Hating Kanji Java based software package, which has a special additional license grant such that
     

     Eloy Villasclaras may use the SODs as a raw data for determining correct stroke order using machine logic in the Hating Kanji (ihatekanji) software package. He must maintain a notice that the SODs are used under this license for the purpose of calculating correct stroke order in the stroke order testing program's display.

   • Dana Contreras's jlex. Her version of Kanji Lookup-by-Multi-Radical is only the 3rd in the world, and has some unique innovations.
   • Paul Goins, in Hyogo-ken, Japan, is developing a free software packaged called J-Ben which would allow users to incorporate the SODs and SODAs.
   • Olof Sjobergh in Sweden has created a Swedish-Japanese dictionary site called Japanska.se.
   • Grzegorz Bober at the University of Warsaw Institute of Oriental Studies has developed Tangorin which makes use of AJAX and incorporates the SODs.
   • Professor Jouji Miwa at Iwate University in Japan is using the SODs and SODAs in his uPal project (United Portal for Advanced Learning).
   • Jan Kasprzak in the Czech Republic has obtained a license for his new Japanese learning project Zkoušení slovní zásoby (in Czech).
   • Johan Eliasson in Stockholm Sweden has a license to use the SODAs at StudyJapanese.org. The site contains lessons with sounds, glossary lists and a Japanese-English dictionary. It also contains flash card drills for vocabulary, kanji, katakana and hiragana.
   • Scott McHughs in San Diego California has a license to use the SODAs in his freeware Japanese reference and Study for Macintosh OS X Kanji Go.
   • Pierre-Phi in Nice, France has a license to use the SODAs in his Kotoba project, which is a free multilingual Japanese dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch devices available at the iTunes App Store.
   • Jan Kasprzak in the Czech Republic has obtained a license for use in Japanese e-learning drills inside the Masaryk University Information System.
   
   
2. All web sites using these Kanji Stroke Order Diagrams or Stroke Order Diagram Animations must provide a link back to the License page www.kanjicafe.com/license.htm FROM ANY PAGE DISPLAYING ONE OR MORE OF THE DIAGRAMS OR ANIMATIONS. Software must contain either a web link, or the URL of KanjiCafe.com displayed concomitant with the display of any SOD or SODA.
3. The attribution on the diagrams may not be altered, removed, or concealed. It must be displayed along with any display of the SOD or SODA.
     - Each SOD has the attribution "(c) KanjiCafe.com".
     - Each SODA has the attribution "(c) KanjiCafe".
     - Special archives may have other, similar attributions.
4. These diagrams and animations may never be sold, nor bundled in any product being sold without first obtaining a commercial license. They are not yours to sell. If you sell them, you must have a commercial agreement with the Rolomail Trading.
5. You may not use either the SODs or SODAs to create derivative diagrams or animations nor alter the diagrams.
6. Anyone redistributing this particular set of 1,654 diagrams or animations must include an exact copy of this particular grant of license.

Notes:

Where in previous releases it would have been appreciated if anyone using the first 1,000 SODs or SODAs as a courtesy would have notified Jim Rose at jim(at)kanjicafe.com, with the 3rd public archival release of the first 1,654 completed SODs and SODAs, it is now a license requirement in compliance with limitation (1).

Many of stroke order diagrams in this current release are the only kanji stroke order diagrams available for that particular kanji to the general public. i.e., there is no reference with which to dispute the joint opinion of the artist and editor. In each case the artist and editor have referenced other kanji diagrams which contain the same radical elements, and are backed up by known public references to ensure accurate depictions of the correct order.

The SODER project's goal is to create SODs for each of the 6,353 kanji in JIS X 0208-1990. The SODs are used to automatically create SODAs. In choosing which kanji to work on for these first 1,654 there has been no attempt to encompass any particular well defined subset of chinese characters. However, they are all from the more "important" 1/3rd of the JIS X 0208-1990 set. Note that none of the kanji in this release exceed 15 strokes. We plan to make another, larger public release of new diagrams and animations at the milestones of every 500 characters, or 12 public releases before the final set is published. This is the 3rd public release.

Each SOD diagram is in PNG format and each SODA animation is in GIF89a format. Both are named by the kanji, in this form:

<kanji>.png

and . . .

<kanji>.gif

These archive files are named by the kanji encoded as either EUC-JP (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) or Unicode (Mac OS X):

EUC-JP Encoded File Names:
sod-euc.tar.gz
soda-euc.tar.gz

Unicode Encoded File Names:
sod-utf8.tar.gz
soda-utf8.tar.gz

These archives have files named by the hex code for the kanji encoded as EUC-JP (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), Unicode (Mac OS X), Japan Information Standard or JIS (mostly in Japan), and Shift-JIS (Windows).

SODs
sod-euc-hex.tar.gz
sod-jis-hex.tar.gz
sod-sjis-hex.tar.gz
sod-utf8-hex.tar.gz

SODAs
soda-euc-hex.tar.gz
soda-jis-hex.tar.gz
soda-sjis-hex.tar.gz
soda-utf8-hex.tar.gz

All rights to these diagrams and animations are retained by James Rose, the KanjiCafe.com, and the Rolomail Trading.

Thanks for your cooperation,

Jim Rose