John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > starner writes: > > If you run most algorithms specified by Unicode, like normalization, > > capitalization or the bidirectional algorithm, you do it with the use of > > the data from UnicodeData.txt, whether you copied it from there or copied > > it from the Unicode book. > > That's what I thought. Therefor any program that implements any of those > algorithms is dependent on the data in UnicodeData.txt. > > However, if that data can only be usefully expressed in precisely that way > (that is, reverse-engineering those algorithms would regenerate the file) > then the copyright on the file is probably unenforceable.
The copyright is on the *file* and not on "the data", and certainly not on the *information* which the file contains.
