From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 14:37:02 CST
It is governed by http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html . We had recently
decided to clarify that to be clear that it applies to code samples in
technical reports, but the wording is not quite finished.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:54
Subject: Re: Sample code for NFC and Plane 1 characters
> Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > On the plate for 4.1 is updating that code. Markus Scherer and Vladimir
> > Weinstein provided fixed code, but it slipped through the cracks in the
> > previous versions.
>
> While you're at it, is there any chance you could loosen up the
> copyright a bit? The ideal situation would be public domain. The current
> copyright notice with "All Rights Reserved" means I can learn the
> algorithms from it, but I pretty much have to reimplement them from
> scratch.
>
> If that was the intent, then it's The consortium's code and they can do
> what they want. However, if they expected people to actually use this,
> as I expect they might have, then a license that allows that is necessary.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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>
>
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