Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
Hi,
Il 18/06/20 20:21, Phil Endecott via Boost ha scritto:
See another thread for the copyright discussion. Basically, 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. The Boost licence does not require attribution and I support that. So if I've understood the situation correctly - and I am not a lawyer! - this means that sadly Boost must REJECT the affected code.
Are these tables the same that are embedded in Boost.Spirit headers? I am referring to files in libs/spirit/include/boost/spirit/home/support/char_encoding/unicode. If those files are problematic, then probably something should be done about Boost.Spirit as well.
Well spotted. See also: https://github.com/boostorg/spirit/blob/develop/workbench/unicode/DerivedCor... That starts: # DerivedCoreProperties-5.2.0.txt # Date: 2009-08-26, 00:45:22 GMT [MD] # # Unicode Character Database # Copyright (c) 1991-2009 Unicode, Inc. # For terms of use, see http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html # For documentation, see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/ # It is ok to redistribute this file "solely for informational # purposes in the creation of products supporting the Unicode Standard". # We don't nee to add a Boost License to this file: boostinspect:nolicense. Note that I don't know who wrote that, nor where the "solely for informational purposes..." quote comes from. And what are "informational purposes" anyway? - it doesn't sound to me as if that were written by a lawyer. This really needs an expert to look at it, IMO. Regards, Phil.