From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Icu4c branch Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:31:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ilfveg8i.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9343"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: J.Kenyon@ordinarygizmos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 05:32:12 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pXac0-0002Fi-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2023 05:32:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXabH-0007Dv-4t; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:31:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXabG-0007Dc-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:31:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXabF-00021Z-Ig; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:31:25 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=F2AnQykcgYf1v8Yt6KcA99W7vz5VgwTuvCMjC/yN4pI=; b=ZgahKTKDH6Fz J0JziTu2XUJ09976rMey3eEj6+AGpCqk6wOgVa6gYxYt2v3mxlfN4YAAz9zkiPH3NKttzN/dQL2mC NI0CCHMbec8ZDGEA+L6W1D9zkmuPU52LBd/4FIn00nW7vbojB44b+GhxHNGlDKw9bcc8tdyFObAB0 C3sgggtunBGnwGv2KC96aGkRv95VgRTKC57YOSiSmBYnWYGF9fFoxiIKk4kHnVilj/F967qBC+wqK l5Sw2iOoWxNszUs5+99+tdWDcQ2fAHjBoAvujfeMwPIkFS9rAFkFa4GU/SuymHdhiQLDZJXLZnO9J x1NpR16Q4IvnHbdolc+JOQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXabE-0003Dl-K1; Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:31:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ilfveg8i.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:31:57 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303886 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 trying to apply the patches to the master branch of Android's icu library, I'm finding that there are no Android.mk files. Was there a > > specific version of icu I should checkout? I see a possible GPL issue here -- but since I don't know Android, I can't tell whether it is really an issue. What does the icu library do? Does it qualify as a system library according to GPL version 3? Are the Android.mk files source files? Are they omitted from recent versions of the library? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)