Re: Is admin/unidata/copyright.html a free software license?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:48:51 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > This was indeed discussed, and the conclusion was that it's okay for
> > us to distribute these files, and to distribute data based on those
> > files as part of Emacs.
> 
> Could you point me to the previous discussion please?

No, it was not on a public forum.

> I don't disagree that these files can be distributed (at least
> currently). However, merely being distributable is a much lower standard
> than being free.

As you yourself say, correctly, these files contain data, not code,
and the data is of the kind that hardly ever justifies copyright.

> >> I am also surprised that these lists in admin/unidata/ or, in general,
> >> a character set can be copyrightable. (For example, everyone uses ASCII
> >> without thinking about copyright of the underlying ANSI X3.4 standard.
> >> The same applies to several much larger CJK character sets.)
> 
> > So therefore why are you raising this non-issue, from your POV?
> 
> But is it a non-issue? Why would Unicode claim copyright for these files
> if they aren't copyrightable?

I have no idea.  Feel free to ask them.