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[Bug localedata/11213] localedata licencing issues
- From: "jrnieder at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:16:16 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/11213] localedata licencing issues
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- References: <bug-11213-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11213
--- Comment #11 from Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail dot com> 2012-07-15 18:16:16 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I'm sorry, I didn't realize the presence of this bug earlier. We have made
> some research regarding this on the mailing list some time ago and this is
> currently the opinion of FSF on the matter:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2012-q2/msg00136.html
>
> I.e., locale data is not copyrightable, therefore it cannot be covered by any
> licence and that is also the reason we do not require copyright assignment
> paperwork from the locale authors.
I guess one approach would be to scrub all the comments out of these files
so all that is left is the locale data?
Though I wouldn't be too thrilled with that.
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