On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:31:06AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:13:11PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > There is currently a RC bug reported against gucharmap (#216118), > > because it includes files derived from the Unicode character database. > > The license for these files is available at > > http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html > > > So the question is, does this licensing allow for shipping the generated > > files under any license? Here, the GPL. > > That's the third time this has come up. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200307/msg00056.html Last I heard, we were treating this issue as pending a resolution, because Thomas Bushnell, BSG, who is both Debian and upstream maintainer of GNU Miscfiles, assured us that a freely-licensed equivalent was forthcoming. Uh, Thomas, how's that coming? -- G. Branden Robinson | Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained branden@debian.org | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Hanlon's Razor
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