Paul Hardy <unifoun...@gmail.com> writes: > I understand your intention, but it's not that straightforward. The > data that I saw in Debian packages I looked through used various pieces > of property data from various files from the Unicode Consortium within > pre-built arrays also containing other data, though I didn't look > through all packages that used Unicode data by any means.
> In my case, I used Unicode code point descriptions in the comment fields > of lex patterns (flex on Debian) in my beta2uni program (part of my > unibetacode package), which converts Beta Code to Unicode. Here are a > few such lines of code: > \*\/[Aa] print_pattern (yytext, 0x0386); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER > ALPHA WITH TONOS */ > \*\/[Ee] print_pattern (yytext, 0x0388); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER > EPSILON WITH TONOS */ > \*\/[Hh] print_pattern (yytext, 0x0389); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA > WITH TONOS */ > \*\/[Ii] print_pattern (yytext, 0x038A); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA > WITH TONOS */ > \*\/[Oo] print_pattern (yytext, 0x038C); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER > OMICRON WITH TONOS */ > \*\/[Uu] print_pattern (yytext, 0x038E); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER > UPSILON WITH TONOS */ > \*\/[Ww] print_pattern (yytext, 0x038F); /* GREEK CAPITAL LETTER > OMEGA WITH TONOS */ > etc. It's not directly relevant to this bug report, since the data in question in some of these packages may be of a different nature, but it might be worth pointing out that data such as what you show above is probably not copyrightable under at least US law (and I think that exception is fairly common internationally). It therefore probably isn't meaningfully under any license, although including the Unicode Data License in the package doesn't hurt. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, let alone a copyright lawyer. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
