[PATCH 3/5] localedata: CLDRv28: update LC_ADDRESS.country_name translations

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Mon Feb 22 18:36:00 GMT 2016


* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 02/22/2016 06:12 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Carlos O'Donell:
>> 
>>> I suggest we continue the work and I will ask FSF legal to comment
>>> on the issue of needing an attribution for the use of the Unicode
>>> data files. I am still of the opinion that the original statement
>>> from the FSF is enough guidance, to continue the work Mike is doing,
>>> but it doesn't hurt to get clarification.
>> 
>> Please also point them out that ISO currently seems to re-sell glibc
>> locale data under a restrictive license.  This is probably not what
>> the FSF wanted to enabled when it disclaimed copyright on glibc locale
>> data.
>
> Could you expand on this please? What exactly are they doing and how
> can I verify this?

See my parallel response to Keld.

It seems you can find some of these documents with a web search for
"it is taken from glibc sources" (*with* quotes).



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