On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:06:46 +0100 Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> [151219 13:01]: [...] > > Sorry, I was not clear. Please let me try again. > > You were clear, but I disagree, esp. because of the current version > of the Unicode.org/Public license (see below for more).
Well, the current version of the Unicode license is something I was not aware of (or maybe I had forgotten about it, I am not sure...). And it changes everything about this issue: why didn't you mention it immediately?!? [...] > While the files in the ruby source package bear the > old Unicode license header, Unicode, Inc. has published newer > versions of those files under the current unicode.org public > license[1] which is as free as we want it to be. I am happy to learn this. The current Unicode Data Files and Software license [1] indeed looks OK for Debian main. > > Replacing the license comments in those files is work that's better > done upstream but there's no pressing issue for us. Apart that the current situation is misleading and should be cured. > At some point > we should probably update d/copyright saying that those files match > the unicode.org/Public files and therefore are under the unicode.org > public license. Or upstream gets to updating the file headers > first. Please urge Ruby upstream developers to update those files, thus replacing the old permission notice with the new one. In the meanwhile, I think a comment should be placed in the debian/copyright file explaining the state of affairs: otherwise, expect a number of bug reports similar to this one in the future. > > Expanding on the new license: the new Unicode, Inc. license has been > in effect since at least 2006-11 [2], and applies to any data and > software files published under http://unicode.org/Public/. The > CVTUTF sample code has been distributed way longer by Unicode, Inc. > from a directory below http://unicode.org/Public/ [3], so the new, > free, license has to apply to CVTUTF as well. Good, thanks for clarifying. Bye! > > [0] http://unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/ > [1] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 > [2] > https://web.archive.org/web/20060118131211/http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html > [3] > https://web.archive.org/web/20061205103435/http://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/ -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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