Arphic Technology


Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. is a type foundry based in Taiwan, founded in May 1990.

Fonts

Arphic PL Fonts

Arphic Technology is the creator of the Arphic PL Fonts, including AR PL KaitiM Big5, AR PL Mingti2L Big5, AR PL SungtiL GB and AR PL KaitiM GB, which were released in 1999 under the Arphic Public License. They are used by Debian-derived Linux distributions, as well as by most LaTeX distributions, as part of their default CJK fonts.
In 2010, 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.