On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:11 +0100 Simon Josefsson wrote: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe that is a free software license. RMS has reviewed it and > > thought it was OK. If people here would review it as well, that may > > be useful. > > To simplify review, below is the Unicode Consortium's license. > > FWIW, I recall that RMS reviewed it for Emacs. I don't remember > whether Emacs actually incorporate (parts of) the Unicode tables now. > The intended feature was blocked by the old license, but may not have > been finished after the license was modified. > > Regards, > Simon > > EXHIBIT 1 > UNICODE, INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT - DATA FILES AND SOFTWARE [license text follows]
It seems to be a permissive non-copyleft license more or less similar (but not equivalent) to a 3-clause BSD license[1] or to an X11 license[2]. DFSG-free and GPL-compatible. [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html [2] http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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