Re: [boost] Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:50 AM Paul A Bristow via Boost wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Peter Dimov via Boost Sent: 1 September 2020 14:17 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Peter Dimov Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

Paul A Bristow wrote:

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I sense it is unlikely that we would get a definitive legal opinion, even after paying money, for a license detail that is clearly ill-defined.

I agree. The proper role of our legal representative - if we had one - in this case would not be to provide us with legal advice, but to contact the legal representative of the Unicode Consortium, explain the situation (Boost does not allow libraries that impose an attribution requirement for binaries, which on its face precludes us ever having a Unicode library), ask them to maybe consider dropping that requirement from their license, failing that, ask them for an explicit permission for Boost libraries to use their data files without such a license requirement, failing that, ask them for a clear and an official statement that they do stand by this license requirement.

Ok with this - but, since we do not have a legal representative, can someone else write 'officially' from Boost?

One of the steering group?

Paul

Yes. I'm in the process of doing this now. An email is out; I'm awaiting a response. I'm on the Steering Committee (now the Boost Foundation Board). Zach