Re: Boost.Text is looking for a (mini-)review manager

From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-08-23 17:01:44

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:08 AM Phil Endecott via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Hi Zach,
>
> Zach Laine wrote:
> > I've made all the recommended changes to Boost.Text that came up in
> > the review.
>
> > * All the specific review feedback issues have been addressed.
> > * The string layer is now gone.
> > * The text layer got a major re-work.
>
> Could you please explain what you've done about the copyright issues?

Sure.  I've reimplemented the code that originally came from ICU, and ...

> As far as I can tell, you still depend on the Unicode data files that
> have a Boost-incompatible licence.  You previously included this
> Unicode copyright text in the documentation but that page has now been
> removed, if I'm looking in the right place.

... removed the ICU copyright from these files.  They are the output
of a code generation tool, and so are not copyrightable individually
(like the output of lex and yacc).

> Is this the correct URL for the new version:
> https://github.com/tzlaine/text/

Yes, that's it.

Zach