On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:26:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:05:28AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:39:06PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > Bah, i still don't believe that these two clause are really non-free. They may > be a bother and everything, but not non-free accordying to the DFSG. > > Now, if you feel like solving problems in 5 minutes, could you please have a > look at the unicode.data problem, which Sylvain Legal asked about here over 6 > month ago, and which didn't find an appropriate solution and has been in limbo > since then, even though it seems many other packages carry it already in main. > > Sylvain, could you quickly recapitulate the issue, so Andrew can help solving > it as he so nicely volunteered to do in 5 minutes ? >
Hello, Well, this problem has nothing to do with ocaml... But i can set this problem once again : - i have library which contains UnicodeData.txt - copyright of upstream and package contains references to UCD ( you can find this licence here : http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html ) - the files UnicodeData.txt is only shipped in the source ( there is a program to transform into ocaml readable file ) - after having read -legal archive, and submitted my problem http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00022.html, i am still waiting for a solution To sum up, you told every one to wait for a release of a new miscfiles containing up to date UnicodeData.txt. The latest release date from October 2002. I contact maintainer/upstream author who told me he was no more in charge of this package... Now, i am waiting for a solution... Since, i begin to really need the package i am working on, it would be really nice to be able to upload the package in his native form ( ie without doing nasty replacement with files from other package ). Is the current licence of this data, should be enough DFSG free to allow a distribution in main ? Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall ps : my question is a trap : python, perl et al already shipped the file ( i don't know for whom is it a trap : perl maintainer or -legal... good luck perl maintainer )
