John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > > The copyright is on the *file* and not on "the data",... > > Did I say it was? > > > ...and certainly not on the *information* which the file contains. > > An instantiation of that information could be considered a derivative of > the copyrighted work. My second paragraph explains one reason why it might > not be.
I believe at this point you are raising FUD. The license on Unicode explicitly grants permission to make such derivatives, if they even are such, in free programs. This is sufficient for our purposes, because it means that the free program is really free, and that's all Debian requires.