On Tue, Mar 29 2016 at 7:15 CEST, [email protected] writes: > On 3/28/2016 9:40 PM, Janusz S. "Bień" wrote:
[...] > The terms of use (ostensibly for the entire site) are defined here: > > http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html > > The document archive has not been designated with anything more > restrictive, more specific or even explicit, but the documents > themselves do not carry copyrights. As far as the Consortium is > concerned, it requires the submitters to follow this policy > > http://www.unicode.org/policies/ipr_policy.html > > which gives the Consortium the rights to distribute submissions for > any purpose. > > For example: > > Can it be redistributed and replicated on other sites? > > The Consortium places restrictions on the use of material on "pay > sites". > > Can it be quoted > literally in a Wikipedia entry? > > Do you see anything that would restrict you, other than not having any > written policy that explicitly covers the Wikipedia? The document I refer to is a ISO/IEC document. As far as I know, ISO is quite crazy about copyright. Does the Unicode Consortium policy apply to this document? If so, then on which principle? An explicit agreement with ISO? > In general, what can be done to make access to such information easier? > > Over time, some of the information should move from the proposals to > the text of the core specification and / or into a technical report. > (For the mathematical characters, there exists a UTR that covers more > details than the core specification, but for completeness, the core > specification still contains some higher level stuff). > > This process can be user-driven or user\- assisted, by people > identifying gaps and either proposing text for the core specification > or writing a Unicode Technical Note or proposing a UTR to cover the > information. > > A UTN or UTR may be appropriate vehicles to collect information about > a particular field of application (e.g. medievalist use). An UTN (or UTR) seems a very good long term solution, but I wonder how many Unicode users are aware of UTN. Personally I tend to forgot about them :-) What about a simpler and more technical approach, like a character index with links to the relevant proposals? Doesn't such a thing already exist for internal use? Best regards Janusz -- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) [email protected], [email protected], http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
