On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:58:38PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > UnicodeData is different, because we need the data in our program, > > not only the ideas. And it this case we see that as software! > > Maybe you're right that we don't really need the rfc's in main. They > actually are now and it would be a shame if we dropped them. But we need > files like this unicode file in main, which is part of a specification > (I think), so can't be altered.
But do you think it's _okay_ for such a file not to be free? (Whether it actually is or not is a topic for debian-legal). We could be stuck with programs that we can't modify to support new languages, for example. Richard Braakman