On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:12:57AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > > The copyright is on the *file* and not on "the data",... > > Did I say it was? > > > ...and certainly not on the *information* which the file contains. > > An instantiation of that information could be considered a derivative of > the copyrighted work. My second paragraph explains one reason why it might > not be.
A couple of URLs of interest: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/intl/unicharutil/tools/ http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py?rev=1.17&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Both show that these projects (at least) are mechanically deriving their internal unicode tables from UnicodeData.txt. Jim Penny
