On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:31:34 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > I may need to package liblinebreak, as it seems that new versions of > fbreader will use it. Thought I'd run the licenses past legal, though > I think I've convinced myself they are free. > > The main license is BSD-ish: To be more precise, it's substantially identical to the zlib license, and hence perfectly fine for main (zlib is in Debian main). [...] > It also includes a file linebreakdata.c [1] > > 1 /* The content of this file is generated from: > 2 # LineBreak-5.0.0.txt > 3 # Date: 2006-05-23, 11:43:00 PST [KW] > 4 */ > > Which is http://unicode.org/Public/5.0.0/ucd/LineBreak.txt > and is licened under the (second) license at > http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html, as follows: > > EXHIBIT 1 > UNICODE, INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT - DATA FILES AND SOFTWARE [...] This license seems to be the same discussed in the following (short) thread: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/46AE4DBA.2070109@debian.org It seems to be an uncommon non-copyleft license which meets the DFSG. What I expressed are my own opinions. My usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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