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Issue #11844 has been updated by duerst (Martin D端rst).


zeha (Christian Hofstaedtler) wrote:
> The non-free problem is with this line: "supplied in this file in the creation of products supporting the Unicode Standard" - which implies that you can't use this file to produce stuff not supporting / not complying with "the Unicode Standard" (which itself may change at any time). (This is a problem for redistributors that may opt to use the GPL for Ruby and also causes DFSG issues.)

Just for the record, with r59715 it still says "supporting Unicode", but our understanding is that we used the original files to create a product (Ruby) supporting the Unicode standard, but the new files that were created are no longer under Unicode copyright, meaning that downstream third-party users should also be fine.


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Bug #11844: Please update unicode-licensed files (license issue)
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11844#change-66477

* Author: zeha (Christian Hofstaedtler)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE)
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.2.3
* Backport: 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE, 2.3: DONE
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Various files in enc/trans are old copies of Unicode.org files that forbid (re-)distribution. AFAICT, Unicode, Inc. has published newer versions of these files to fix this issue.
New versions could possibly be found on http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/ and elsewhere under http://www.unicode.org/Public/

ext/json/generator/generator.c also has a restrictive Unicode, Inc. license blurb. Please fix this as well.




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