Hi,
I've corresponded with a lawyer type at IBM who's associated with the ICU group. He
seems to know what the issues are and what I'm talking about, at least in general. Not
a surprise: there is a license issue. It seem that it would not be possible to
distribute ICU as a part of the Perl distribution because the licenses are not
compatible. This doesn't seem to be an immutable situation, necessarily. IBM has a
process for assigning licenses to their open source projects and - in theory anyway -
ICU's license could be changed. I'm pursuing this.
This doesn't prevent Perl from incorporating calls into ICU. Perl calls into totally
closed proprietary libraries as it is (Windows for example) without violating
anything. ICU and Perl just can't be distributed together as one thing at this point
in time.
I've asked about using ICU in a limited fashion to generate Perl source code. (This
seems pretty safe to me, but who knows.)
I'll post further information as soon as I have any.
=Ed
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