Re: Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

From: Damian Vicino (damian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-08-25 01:55:02

Did anyone try to contact the unicode consortium about this?
I'm not part of that community, but maybe they are ok and they can
officially say so? Or maybe they are not and we can avoid guessing what
they are going to do.

El lun., 24 ago. 2020 a las 17:22, Peter Dimov via Boost (<
boost_at_[hidden]>) escribió:

> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>
> > 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.)
>
>
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