Re: GPLv3/L8R -- the unicode files (was: GPLv3 status)

Mats Lidell writes:  > >>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes:  > Stephen> We need to figure out what to do with the Unicode data, as  > Stephen> well.  Some of the files have weird licenses, basically  > Stephen> permissive but not obviously GPL compatible.  >  > Did we reach some conclusion on what to do with these files with  > unicode data? If so what was it? No.  However, I'm reasonably sure that we can redistribute all of these files, see the READMEs. For the purposes of an initial GPLv3 release, put a COPYING file in /etc/unicode declaring that these files are *not* part of XEmacs, they are all available publicly from O'Reilly Associates or the Unicode Consortium, and are collected here *unchanged* for the convenience of the user/builder of XEmacs.  Redistribution is governed by their own licensing notices, which are included in each file AFAIK, and by clarifying statements of the owners (in READMEs). I think this is a reasonable interpretation, since XEmacs can be configured to not care if any particular one (or many) of those files exists, and it can use other versions etc (not that there ever will be any AFAIK).