DFSG-compliance of Unicode Copyright

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Thu Jul 24 15:42:01 UTC 2008


* Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe at mytum.de> [2008-07-24 16:52]:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > Does anyone know whether the Unicode Copyright [1] is DFSG-compliant?
> > 
> > The file /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/unicore/Blocks.txt in perl-modules is
> > released under this license, but there is no mention to it in
> > /usr/share/doc/perl-modules/copyright.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
> 
> The license is already used in main for packages such as unicode-data.
> perl-modules should of course mention it in its copyright file if a part
> of it uses it.

Indeed, the license appears in /usr/share/doc/unicode-data/copyright.
Thanks for the pointer.

(I am forwarding this message to the perl-modules package maintainers, since
they need to take some action.  Should I file a bug report for that?)

Cheers.
 
-- 
Rafael



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