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Re: [PATCH 1/3] localedata: use same comment_char/escape_char in these files
- From: keld at keldix 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, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:43:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] localedata: use same comment_char/escape_char in these files
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 02:20:08PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 03/11/2016 05:31 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Carlos and Florian exchanged few emails about CLDR/Unicode/glibc locale
> > copyright status, was there still something to be clarified on that front?
>
> I have sent the FSF legal an email requesting clarification on the type
> of attribution we need to provide, if any, for using CLDR/Unicode data
> in the project. This has nothing to do with copyright status. The FSF does
> not collect copyright on locales, so that's fine, but what's not fine is
> what do *others* think and what do *others* require of us to comply to their
> own interpretations.
I think it is a problem that FSF does not claim copyright on the locales,
then we cannot protect them.
At least a collecting copyricht should be applied.
Best regards
keld