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Subject:    Re: [elinks-dev] charset licences in ELinks, and debian/copyright
From:       Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <giridhar () appaji ! net>
Date:       2008-10-08 5:31:32
Message-ID: 20081008051930.GA4005 () loktak ! hq ! netapp ! com
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On 08/10/07 02:50 +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo said ...
> > distributed at unicode.org I assumed them all to be of the same license.
> 
> Oh, look here: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1

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> lists those licences as GPL compatible so this one should be too.

I agree with your assessment.

> How about:
> - We add that text into COPYING, with a list of the files to
>   which it applies.
> - We replace all the bundled charset mapping files with current
>   versions from www.unicode.org where available.
> - We add to each such file a comment like:
>   # The following data has been downloaded from
>   # <http://www.unicode.org/Public/> and is thus covered by the
>   # Unicode, Inc. License agreement included in the COPYING file
>   # of ELinks, regardless of the terms shown below.  This comment
>   # and the lines above were not in the original data.
> 
> Then it should be fully compliant?

Yes, that should be enough.

Regards,

Giridhar

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