With the colossal caveat that I am only a **consumer of** Unicode's deliverables, I could speak briefly to the concern at point #3:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:20 AM Till Jaeger via lists.spdx.org <jaeger= jbb...@lists.spdx.org> wrote: > > 3. > To me it seems that the "Unicode® Copyright and Terms of Use" are more > or less ToU for a website and all redistributables are under "Unicode-DFS". > This is certainly inconvenient, but the Unicode site does host quite a few items with practical application, but which aren't under the "DATA FILES" and "SOFTWARE" hierarchies spelled out in "B" of the TOU. Namely, there is the whole "Unicode® Technical Site" at the entry point https://unicode.org/main.html ... which is different from the "Unicode site" at the entry point https://home.unicode.org/ Some of that "Technical Site" material covers projects and committees; there are also older documents, proposals, some data tables, things called "annexes" that I'm never 100% sure I understand the status of, and so on. My guess would be that there is a lot of legacy material from the organization's history that simply doesn't have a clear-cut, select-a-license-from-the-dropdown option. Fortunately, a lot of that material is mostly needed as references, but I can certainly see how occasions would arise where quoting from it is necessary to squash a bug. I've had people attach screenshots from really old Unicode docs in discussion threads. So I wouldn't attempt to weigh in on the other issues (certainly keeping the text up-to-date sounds vital), but merely dropping the license from SPDX would likely affect (a few) projects downstream. Nate -- nathan.p.willis nwil...@glyphography.com <http://identi.ca/n8> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3268): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/3268 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/94682744/21656 Group Owner: spdx-legal+ow...@lists.spdx.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
