From ooo-dev-return-5632-apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Fri Sep 9 18:21:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98B748C84 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4614 invoked by uid 500); 9 Sep 2011 18:21:49 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 4504 invoked by uid 500); 9 Sep 2011 18:21:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ooo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 4495 invoked by uid 99); 9 Sep 2011 18:21:48 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:21:48 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of Mathias_Bauer@gmx.net designates 213.165.64.22 as permitted sender) Received: from [213.165.64.22] (HELO mailout-de.gmx.net) (213.165.64.22) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:21:40 +0000 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Sep 2011 18:21:20 -0000 Received: from d114238.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [192.168.1.250]) [80.171.114.238] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 09 Sep 2011 20:21:20 +0200 X-Authenticated: #17242763 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19IXvUSf6tIto3nYyH7XzYV4fjHRl6hT+JmmyNQX1 W8Zy2Qn5IfRwHM Message-ID: <4E6A591F.8070301@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:21:19 +0200 From: Mathias Bauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?) References: <20110907204423.GJ11827@kulungile.erack.de> <1315430390.17725.YahooMailClassic@web113516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20110908004109.GO11827@kulungile.erack.de> <4E68FC87.4080204@gmx.net> <20110909100641.GY11827@kulungile.erack.de> In-Reply-To: <20110909100641.GY11827@kulungile.erack.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Am 09.09.2011 12:06, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Mathias, > > On Thursday, 2011-09-08 19:33:59 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> >> > I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, >> >> > what "issues with headers" are you referring? >> >> >> >> I am not sure exactly when the ICU license changed but >> >> the first ICU versions had a restrictive license. >> > >> > Well, ICU 1.8.1 and later don't, see >> > http://userguide.icu-project.org/icufaq#TOC-How-is-the-ICU-licensed- >> > >> >> We have some code from ICU in the tree, Matthias' >> >> ApacheMigration list has: >> >> >> >> - get new break iterator data from current ICU >> > >> > That wouldn't change anything, our break iterator data has the same >> > IBM copyright text as the current ICU's data, for example see >> > http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/data/brkitr/char.txt >> > >> > In fact the entire ICU source is full of >> > "Copyright IBM ... - All Rights Reserved" without mentioning any >> > license, but ICU as a whole is licensed under that nonrestrictive >> > license mentioned above. I don't see any issue with that. >> >> So YAAL? :-) > > I'm glad I'm not ;-) > >> Honestly, we shouldn't have files in our repository without a copyright >> header. And if these files are under IBM's copyright, we should fix that. > > Please read again: the breakiterator data files were copied from ICU's > source and modified and contain an IBM copyright. All source files of > ICU contain an IBM copyright. Just pick any file under > icu/$INPATH/misc/build/icu/source/ and see. ICU's license is > http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/license.html > What exactly would not be permissible with the breakiterator files given > that the license grants you "the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, > publish, distribute"? If we can be sure about the IP situation, we should at least add copyright headers to the files, shouldn't we? Or put a license file into the repository. Regards, Mathias