GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 328775
Adding Unicode's copyright info
Last modified: 2006-02-13 21:50:23 UTC
Unicode's copyright page [http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1]: """Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Unicode data files and any associated documentation (the "Data Files") or Unicode software and any associated documentation (the "Software") to deal in the Data Files or Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Data Files or Software, and to permit persons to whom the Data Files or Software are furnished to do so, provided that (a) the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear with all copies of the Data Files or Software, (b) both the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in associated documentation, and (c) there is clear notice in each modified Data File or in the Software as well as in the documentation associated with the Data File(s) or Software that the data or software has been modified.""" (b) says we should add the unicode's copyright info to the about dialog. (c) says we should add them to generated header files.
No no no. The "Software" in the text above means Unicode software, like their implementation of bidi. We're not using Unicode software. It says: (a) the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear with all copies of the Data Files, We don't include Unicode data files. No problem here. Note that it's not about the data. But the data files as provided by Unicode. (b) both the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in associated documentation, and Now since we are using the data files, this may apply. We need to write somewhere, in a README file or in the docs (and not About dialog). But I'm not quite sure. (c) there is clear notice in each modified Data File or in the Software as well as in the documentation associated with the Data File(s) or Software that the data or software has been modified. This doesn't apply again.
2006-01-27 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org> Fixes bug #328775. * COPYING.UNICODE: Added. * README: Refer to the above file. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add the new file.
Generate header files *are* "modified Data File"s, so they MUST have the copyright info, IMO as commented on the Data Files. [part (c)] License in the About dialog, is a front end to the COPYING* files, which user finds the legal issues of what she has. So we SHOULD add unicode's copyright, if we have the GPL.
We are including the notice now, so the first point doesn't really matter. Cook a patch please...
Fixed already.