Re: Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-08-24 21:22:11

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.)