Am 08.09.2011 02:41, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Pedro, > > On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 14:19:50 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, >> > what "issues with headers" are you referring? >> >> I am not sure exactly when the ICU license changed but >> the first ICU versions had a restrictive license. > > Well, ICU 1.8.1 and later don't, see > http://userguide.icu-project.org/icufaq#TOC-How-is-the-ICU-licensed- > >> We have some code from ICU in the tree, Matthias' >> ApacheMigration list has: >> >> - get new break iterator data from current ICU > > That wouldn't change anything, our break iterator data has the same > IBM copyright text as the current ICU's data, for example see > http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/data/brkitr/char.txt > > In fact the entire ICU source is full of > "Copyright IBM ... - All Rights Reserved" without mentioning any > license, but ICU as a whole is licensed under that nonrestrictive > license mentioned above. I don't see any issue with that.
So YAAL? :-) Honestly, we shouldn't have files in our repository without a copyright header. And if these files are under IBM's copyright, we should fix that. Regards, Mathias
