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Re: [PATCH 3/5] localedata: CLDRv28: update LC_ADDRESS.country_name translations
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:24:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] localedata: CLDRv28: update LC_ADDRESS.country_name translations
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On 02/11/2016 05:27 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 02/10/2016 03:12 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> then it would be obvious what version of CLDR was used to update the
>> locale. the downside is that the file isn't 100% sourced from CLDR,
>> so it seems like clobbering all the fields is wrong ?
>
> Per FSF statement [1] the locale files are not copyrightable so IMO
> attribution matters only so much as we care to thank the previous
> authors for their work. Such previous authors already have attribution
> in the Changelog, and IMO need not have any more attribution in the
> source file, just like we don't use "Contributed by" anymore.
unicode.org claims copyright on CLDR data:
<http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/unicode-license.txt>
The terms do not appear to be too onerous, but I would recommend to
obtain FSF (and internal) sign-off before incorporating data directly
from CLDR into glibc.
Florian