On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:29:58PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Luke W Faraone <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:28:30 +0100 Bastien ROUCARIES > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mike Hommey ask me to remove a lintian warning about a unicode file. > >> > >> I appear that chrome chan > > ge the license text because unicode changed > >> the license of distribued files. > >> > >> But the relicense is not retroactive and unicde consorcium removed > >> before relicencing the offending file. > > > > Can you clarify which files specifically are in question? > > > > Just to make sure I understand, the order of operations was: > > > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823100 > > > 1. Unicode distributed a project under a non-free license > Yes it was base/ConvertUTF.c and base/ConvertUTF.h. But whole > project was non free in this epoc. > > License was: > > This source code is provided as is by Unicode, Inc. No claims are made > as to fitness for any particular purpose. No warranties of any kind are > expressed or implied. The recipient agrees to determine applicability > of information provided. If this file has been purchased on magnetic or > optical media from Unicode, Inc., the sole remedy for any claim will be > exchange of defective media within 90 days of receipt. > . > Limitations on Rights to Redistribute This Code > . > Unicode, Inc. hereby grants the right to freely use the information > supplied in this file in the creation of products supporting the > Unicode Standard, and to make copies of this file in any form for > internal or external distribution as long as this notice remains > attached. > > At the very least, this license does not grant any permission > to modify the files (thus failing DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant > seems to attempt to restrict use to "products supporting the Unicode > Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6). > > > 2. Unicode removed some of those files from the project > Yes unicode removed this file > > > Unfortunately, upstream seems to have _dropped_ the code due to being > buggy and unmaintained since 2004, according to > http://unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=90 - summarized at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2685004/why-does-unicode-org-no-longer-offer-a-reference-utf-8-16-32-converter > > > > 3. Unicode changed the license of the project to be DFSG-free > > Yes but only to file offered to be downloaded on unicode website (and > well after 2004): > If Unicode Inc has published new versions of the two files in > more recent times, the updated versions should be under the > current unicode.org public license, as explained in > http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 > > Therefore both files wer not relicenced....
See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/google-breakpad/issues/detail?id=270#c6 Moreover, the license agreement for data files and software was added in 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040402165154/http://www.unicode.org:80/copyright.html and the files have been available (so under the new agreement) until 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090529064329/http://www.unicode.org:80/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/ Mike
