Am 10.09.2011 16:54, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Mathias, > > On Saturday, 2011-09-10 00:11:55 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> >> If we can be sure about the IP situation, we should at least add >> >> copyright headers to the files, shouldn't we? Or put a license file into >> >> the repository. >> > >> > I'm confused now. The breakiterator data files _have_ copyright headers. >> > Copyright IBM. Wasn't this what it is all about? Or do you mean we >> > should add where they originated from, ICU? >> >> Not all files in the module i18npool have copyright headers. For >> example, see the data files in collator or indexentry. When we talked >> about that some weeks ago you mentioned all of them came from ICU. Did I >> misunderstand you? > > Apparently yes, only all breakiterator data is based on ICU files. > > The collator data files were contributed either by the Sun Globalization > team (all CJK files) and have a Sun copyright header, or by OOo members, > in which case a comment only states for which language/script the data > is. Unfortunately hg log shows only the CWS integration commit comment, > not the real commits that happened on the CWS, otherwise one could even > dig out associated issue numbers and probably would find there the > original contributors. Anyway, all submissions should have happened > under JCA/SCA and thus are covered by the SGA. > > The indexentry data files were created by Karl Hong, working for the Sun > Globalization team at that time. IIRC he used the CLDR main > exemplarCharacters to generate them, see > http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/summary/root.html and > individual language's charts, and added the index information. For CLDR > data the applicable license is the Unicode Terms of Use, see > http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads and > http://unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 > The Unicode copyright notice is included in > readlicense_oo/html/THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html
Whatever the source of the data files in i18npool is, we should provide them with proper license information. Regards, Mathias
