UnicodeData.txt licence : no advance since it was last submitted on debian-legal month ago.
Ok, let's rename this thread so people can see it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:32:08AM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:26:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:05:28AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:39:06PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > Bah, i still don't believe that these two clause are really non-free. They may
> > be a bother and everything, but not non-free accordying to the DFSG.
> >
> > Now, if you feel like solving problems in 5 minutes, could you please have a
> > look at the unicode.data problem, which Sylvain Legal asked about here over 6
> > month ago, and which didn't find an appropriate solution and has been in limbo
> > since then, even though it seems many other packages carry it already in main.
> >
> > Sylvain, could you quickly recapitulate the issue, so Andrew can help solving
> > it as he so nicely volunteered to do in 5 minutes ?
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> Well, this problem has nothing to do with ocaml... But i can set this
> problem once again :
> - i have library which contains UnicodeData.txt
> - copyright of upstream and package contains references to UCD ( you can
> find this licence here : http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html )
> - the files UnicodeData.txt is only shipped in the source ( there is a
> program to transform into ocaml readable file )
> - after having read -legal archive, and submitted my problem
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00022.html, i am still
> waiting for a solution
>
> To sum up, you told every one to wait for a release of a new miscfiles
> containing up to date UnicodeData.txt. The latest release date from
> October 2002.
>
> I contact maintainer/upstream author who told me he was no more in
> charge of this package...
>
> Now, i am waiting for a solution...
>
> Since, i begin to really need the package i am working on, it would be
> really nice to be able to upload the package in his native form ( ie
> without doing nasty replacement with files from other package ).
>
> Is the current licence of this data, should be enough DFSG free to allow
> a distribution in main ?
>
> Kind regard
> Sylvain Le Gall
>
> ps : my question is a trap : python, perl et al already shipped the file
> ( i don't know for whom is it a trap : perl maintainer or -legal... good
> luck perl maintainer )
>
>
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