On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > > Joseph> Any comments on whether we should consider the Unicode character data > Joseph> - UnicodeData.txt and DerivedNormalizationProps.txt, a total of about > Joseph> 2MB - as source code for the generated ucnid.h that should be checked > Joseph> into the repository and included in releases, or as an external build > Joseph> tool or system library that doesn't need including in the GCC source > Joseph> code? > > The last time this came up, for something in libgcj, it wasn't > permissible, according to the Unicode rules, to check in the file. > I haven't checked whether this has changed.
According to the NEWS for GNU miscfiles-1.4, "License worries about the Unicode data are no longer a problem due to a change in the Unicode license.", and according to <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>, "It is a lax permissive license, compatible with all versions of the GPL.". My recollection is that previously there was a license peculiarity meaning that you could import the character data and export an equivalent file under a free software license, but not distribute the original file under such a license. (The license text is included in the generated ucnid.h.) -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
