On 10/12/2015 19:18, Xiangye Xiao (肖湘晔) wrote: > After reminded by Author and Claudio (cc'ed here), I realize reaching out > tug hyphenation mailing list can be more efficient to get connected with > authors. Could you/TUG help coordinate with authors to change license of > hyphenation pattern files so that we can use the data? MIT/BSD/Apache > licenses are acceptable to us, while LPPL/GPL/LGPL v3 are not acceptable. > Unicode license also works for us but it requires to make Unicode joint > copyright owner. > > I am not good at the open source licenses, but as far as I know > MIT/BSD/Apache are liberal and won't affect LaTeX/TeX to use the data. I > probably can arrange a meeting with an open source license expert on our > team to answer potential questions if needed.
I'm not a license expert either, but wonder if you could outline what's the issue with the LPPL here? Joseph
