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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