> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We use ICU with postgres for many years in our  mchar extension, which
>> provides  case-insensitive  text data type for popular  russian financial
>> system.  I don't know if we may ask ICU to give us special BSD-compatible
>> license ?
> 
> I don't think that's necessary. Firebird uses ICU, and has similar
> licensing terms to PostgreSQL.

http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/license.html

........
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 hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
 deal in the Software without restriction, including without
 limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
 to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above
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 of the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this
 permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
........

In my understanding PostgreSQL's manual MUST include the ICU license
term (this is not a problem).  What I am not so sure is, any software
uses PostgreSQL also MUST include the ICU license or not. If yes, I
think this is surely a problem.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
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