required files from unicode.org for jed-extra

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* G. Milde <milde at users.sourceforge.net> [2008-07-24 12:28]:

> to make the ch_table.sl character picker more useful for unicode, I made
> use of two description files from the Unicode Character Database:
> 
>   Blocks.txt
>   NamesList.txt
> 
> They can be download from http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA
> and are under
> 
>   Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc.
>   For terms of use, see http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html
> 
> 
> The Debian package 'perl-modules' provides these files under 
> 
> /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/unicore/Blocks.txt
> 
> where -- unfortunately -- 5.10.0 is a running version number.
> 
> What shall we do:
> 
> * ship these files with jed-extra

This would be my preference.  It is way less hassle for us and we can always
switch to another solution in the future when/if the files go into a
reasonable location and are provided by a tiny package.

>   - keep a copy in the upstream archive, or
>   - download separately with rule get-orig-source

I would prefer the second option.

That said, if we go down this road, we must check about the DFSG-compliance
of the Unicode Copyright. I am going to ask this in debian-legal.

-- 
Rafael