Re: [boost] Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Peter Dimov via Boost Sent: 24 August 2020 22:22 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Peter Dimov Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

Andrey Semashev wrote:

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Personally, I'm still not sure there is a license incompatibility, until a lawyer comments.

Lawyers can't tell you whether the Unicode consortium will be OK with it; they can't even tell you with any certainty whether a court will rule that this is a violation. It's a sufficiently gray area

that it's

potentially problematic, but not clearly problematic.

My opinion is that this use is fine in practice. (Using headers bearing the Unicode consortium copyright directly was not.)

I agree with this. It is clearly a grey area, but Boost has a defensible position (and the likelihood of being called to defend it is sub-normal near zero). Confirmation from Unicode would be perfect, but I doubt if we will get it. My 2 p. Paul