[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Licensing of iso-codes

[Tobias Toedter]

Hi,

we, the maintainers of iso-codes[1], are currently discussing a
licensing issue and are seeking some opinions from -legal subscribers.

The problem is as follows: The package iso-codes provides XML files
with certain ISO lists (e.g. language codes, country codes etc.) and
translations of those lists in .mo form. We do not provide a library or
any other program for accessing that data, just the data itself.

Would it be possible for non-free programs to use that data (XML files
and translations) if iso-codes is licensed under GPL? Or would we need
to use the LGPL for this?

Regards,
Tobias

[1] <http://packages.debian.org/sid/iso-codes>

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Tobias Toedter   | I doubt, therefore I might be.
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