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Re: location of UnicodeData.txt



On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Richard Braakman writes:
> > But do you think it's _okay_ for such a file not to be free? 
> 
> /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt, which I assume is the file
> you are talking about, contains just a table of data.  Unless its creation
> involved creativity rather than just "sweat of the brow" it is not
> protected by copyright.

A similar discussion might apply to the CMap files in
/usr/share/fonts/cmap provided by cmap-adobe-japan1, etc. These have an
Adobe copyright and license preventing modification, but the actual
contents are just:

33 begincidrange
<0000> <00ff>    0
<0100> <01ff>  256
<0200> <02ff>  512
<0300> <03ff>  768
<0400> <04ff> 1024
<0500> <05ff> 1280
<0600> <06ff> 1536
<0700> <07ff> 1792
<0800> <08ff> 2048
<0900> <09ff> 2304
etc


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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