On 11/12/2015 13:23, Joseph Wright wrote: > 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
Just to add that I assume the issue is not the LPPL (or GPL or ...) per se but that your use case requires a very 'permissive' license: correct? Joseph
