Hi Xiangye, Am 10.12.2015 um 20:18 schrieb Xiangye Xiao (肖湘晔): > Dear Miss Mojca and other active contributors to tug hyphenation data, > > I found hyphenation patterns of many languages in tug.org (link > <http://tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/>) > and are interested in using the data. However, licenses of many pattern > files do not work for us. As such, I reached out to many authors regarding > changing licenses in the last few days. I got good and bad responses. Some > authors gave immediate responses, while some emails are unreachable at all. > > 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. > > Please let me know if you are interested in collaborating with us and if > you have any further questions or concerns.
So many words, so many questions: 1. Who are you? 2. What is your use-case? 3. What exact problem(s) are you facing with existing pattern files? 4. What is the benefit of changing licenses to BSD-style ones 4a. For you? 4b. For developers? 4c. For third-party users? Thank you for comprehensive answers! Stephan Hennig (co-maintainer of German hyphenation patterns)
