Re: DFSG-compliance of Unicode Copyright
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> writes:
> Does anyone know whether the Unicode Copyright [1] is DFSG-compliant?
When discussing a specific license, it's best to present the text of
the license in the thread for later reference.
Here is the text of the license as downloaded today:
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