Re: Boost.Text Unicode licence issues

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-09-01 13:16:45

Paul A Bristow wrote:

> I sense it is unlikely that we would get a definitive legal opinion, even 
> after paying money, for a
license detail that is clearly ill-defined.

I agree. The proper role of our legal representative - if we had one - in 
this case would not be to provide us with legal advice, but to contact the 
legal representative of the Unicode Consortium, explain the situation (Boost 
does not allow libraries that impose an attribution requirement for 
binaries, which on its face precludes us ever having a Unicode library), ask 
them to maybe consider dropping that requirement from their license, failing 
that, ask them for an explicit permission for Boost libraries to use their 
data files without such a license requirement, failing that, ask them for a 
clear and an official statement that they do stand by this license 
requirement.

(In the last case all we can do is write a few angry blog posts, tweet them 
and link them on Reddit.)