From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Origin of IVD_Sequences.txt Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:15:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oat5mr34.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <831tq1bg4u.fsf@gnu.org> <878uk9mno0.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <83siih9v4g.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbndl36o.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <83mw8p9u8r.fsf@gnu.org> <87k33qitym.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414160117 10024 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2014 14:15:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:15:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 16:15:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhfe4-0001aw-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:15:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhfe4-0006S8-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhfe1-0006Qr-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhfdy-0005Mx-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhfdx-0005LI-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhfdw-0000e2-V2; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:15:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k33qitym.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175778 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > In this case, asking the Unicode Consortium seems reasonable. > However, in general, people should not be quick to ask some other > party for its interpretation of some license. Is there a question of interpretation here? I thought that the issue was whether the license applies at all or not (AIUI it appears not to apply, although IMO the intent is for it to apply), which is legally quite a different kettle of fish. What I said applies to ANY legal question about dealing with some other entity's publications or claims. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.