The purpose of the package was to provide an accurate, LGPL'd version of the ISO 3166, 639 and 4217 standards., along with translations into the various languages supported by Debian.
I was not aware of the copyright notice that you gave a pointer to; I shall have to think about that, and get an opinion on debian-legal. While the ISO 639 list came from elsewhere To the best of my knowledge, representing such a list in a different electronic form does not represent a breach of copyright, and the list in the iso-codes package, collected from various places on the web with corrections by others, is not a breach of copyright; however I will get a legal opinion on this matter. If the _short_ country names are protected, one possibility is to only use the long forms in the iso-3166.tab file, with the translations translating the long form into short form for each .po file, including an English .po file. (Note: this information is used in other places within Debian, so the issue goes beyond this package). Regards, Alastair McKinstry On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:12, Bram Vandoren wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a descent country list to use in a GPL application. > > I found the list in your iso-codes package and on this page: > http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.htm > > On top of that page there is a copyright notice: > 'The short country names from ISO 3166-1 and the alpha-2 codes are made > available by ISO at no charge for internal use and non-commercial purposes. > The use of ISO 3166-1 in commercial products may be subject to a licence > fee.' > > Does your package has the same restriction or did you find it somewhere else? > > Thanks, > Bram Vandoren.
