On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:11 +0100 Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
> > I believe that is a free software license. RMS has reviewed it and
> > thought it was OK. If people here would review it as well, that may
> > be useful.
>
> To simplify review, below is the Unicode Consortium's license.
>
> FWIW, I recall that RMS reviewed it for Emacs. I don't remember
> whether Emacs actually incorporate (parts of) the Unicode tables now.
> The intended feature was blocked by the old license, but may not have
> been finished after the license was modified.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
> EXHIBIT 1
> UNICODE, INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT - DATA FILES AND SOFTWARE
[license text follows]
It seems to be a permissive non-copyleft license more or less similar
(but not equivalent) to a 3-clause BSD license[1] or to an X11
license[2].
DFSG-free and GPL-compatible.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html
[2] http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html
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