Bug#493421: DFSG-compliance of Unicode Copyright
Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-11.1
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@mytum.de> [2008-07-24 16:52]:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > Does anyone know whether the Unicode Copyright [1] is DFSG-compliant?
> > >
> > > The file /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/unicore/Blocks.txt in perl-modules is
> > > released under this license, but there is no mention to it in
> > > /usr/share/doc/perl-modules/copyright.
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
> >
> > The license is already used in main for packages such as unicode-data.
> > perl-modules should of course mention it in its copyright file if a part
> > of it uses it.
>
> Indeed, the license appears in /usr/share/doc/unicode-data/copyright.
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> (I am forwarding this message to the perl-modules package maintainers, since
> they need to take some action. Should I file a bug report for that?)
Sure, doing that now. Thanks for noting this.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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