On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 12:41 PM Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote: > "Freely use the information supplied . . . in the creation of products > supporting the Unicode Standard" makes it non-FOSS (leaving aside what > it actually means). > > In principle, if I wanted to use the information in Unicode files to > create some competing standard, I've breached the license. > > There are so many of these problematic legacy Unicode licenses in > nominally-FOSS projects that we now have a "unicode-mess" label in > fedora-license-data and a backlog of issues concerning them.
Thank you, Richard. This is useful information. I am pushing builds now to drop the problematic C/C++ backends from the antlr3 package. Since I have not been directed to scrub the offending files out of the source tarball, I have not taken that step. Regards, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
