Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Tim Dijkstra wrote: So doesn't this mean it's time to change the social contract or the DFSG (are standards software?) to make an exception for 'documents and files describing standards'. It's clear that we can't live without them (hence should be in main), and it is also clear there is no

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is, every character in Unicode, all 70,000 of them, has a distinct set of properties. UnicodeData.txt is basically a listing of those properties. If it is a copyrightable work, I see no way for a text processing program to conform to Unicode

Re: Hardware license

2002-11-28 Thread Rich Walker
Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Umm; the .sch and .pcb files are not really source code; they are more like .pdf files. Also, I'm using a GPL rather than BSD license for the traditional philosophical reasons: this is an addition to the commons, rather than a gift to the

Apache License LGPL Compatible

2002-11-28 Thread TJ Mather
Hi, Under what conditions are the Apache License LGPL licenses compatible? I'm working on developing an Excel export filter for KSpread, a spreadsheet program that is part of KDE's KOffice. We want to use the Apache POI library, and we would like to get clarification on whether the licenses

Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.16

2002-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thomas Bushnell writes: Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the function is very simple, enought simple to be free? Anyone kwnow a similar function but GPLized or PD (to replace this function)? Being simple really doesn't matter. However, glibc contains the function, so I'd just