Richard Stallman writes: > Recipient is granted the right to make copies in any form for > internal distribution and to freely use the information > supplied in the creation of products supporting the UnicodeTM > Standard. The files in the Unicode Character Database can be > redistributed to third parties or other organizations (whether > for profit or not) as long as this notice and the disclaimer > notice are retained. Information can be extracted from these > files and used in documentation or programs, as long as there > is an accompanying notice indicating the source. > > Perhaps that last sentence gives us permission to release a free work > containing the full information, but we had better check that with a > lawyer first. Below is the response from Unicode. Is this sufficient? Rick also made the following comment: Note that if you use any Unihan data, you should look at the UCD documentation and pay particular attention to which fields are normative and which are not; and to what is "provisional". A lot of the data in Unihan.txt is not normative, it is spotty and provisional and subject to change and improvement without notice. So I think anyone working on this should separate the display into a normative part and a "provisional" part so the user isn't lead to believe some data are normative but really are unchecked data.