Re: files in gnulib copyright by someone other than the FSF

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

>> lib/gc.h is copyright Simon Josefsson under the GPLv2 or later.
>
> I suspect that Simon will be happy to adjust that.

I've done that now.

>> tests/unigbrk/GraphemeBreakTest.txt and tests/uninorm/NormalizationTest.txt
>> are copyright Unicode, Inc. under the Unicode Terms of Use
>> <http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html>.  Hmmm, those
>> terms don't seem to allow changes, which would not be free software.
>
> These seem to be mere test inputs.
> Is the license unacceptable even for them?

The license for data tables is at the bottom, and I believe it was
reviwed for Emacs which also includes some material from those files.
Unicode actually changed the license to use the BSD for data tables,
after some poking.

/Simon