Re: [boost] Boost.Text review

I also am not a lawyer but know from experience that you can't copyright data, or simple expressions of it. A program is an original work. A table of facts it uses is not. Someone can write what they like in a licence but if the table can be (ideally, has been) produced manually or algorithmically from information (published in whatever form, even if copyright) that simply conveys facts you can use it. There is some risk/issue if you use the way the facts are arranged "creatively" e.g. as a graph or figure or if included in a database (that is organised "creatively" to allow use/retrieval) etc.. Also copyright does not protect an underlying algorithm - only the program that implements it. And if there is simply/only one obvious way to represent said algorithm etc it doesn't prevent one writing the same thing... Obviously a whole program composed of fragments that aren't individually copyrightable but "creatively arranged" in some original program can't then be arranged into a "new" program to form a whole that is - effectively - the original work without that copying of creative arrangement being a breach of copyright ... Also there may be a need to cite sources. and this is only polite - reasonable anyway - but that does NOT require things like inclusion of copyright notices with distributed binaries etc. Citing the source in the comments/ docs / readme other human readable content of the work (the source code) is sufficient. I have purposely not, so far, looked at the specifics of this (original source of this table or usage in proposed boost.text). I might be being naive in my assumption that this is a relatively simple expression of facts. It might be necessary for the removal of all doubt to produce a boost table and code that uses it from primary sources and descriptions (not programs) re how the table/algorithm is used/works. On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, 4:25 am Vinnie Falco via Boost, wrote:

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:22 AM Phil Endecott via Boost wrote:

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if I understand correctly, Zach's code includes tables that are derived from Unicode data and the licence for that data requires a copyright attribution.

Could we ask the owner of the copyright to dual-license the data under the BSL? That might be a cheap and easy solution.

Thanks

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