Icu4c branch

Icu4c branch

[Jonathan Kenyon]

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Hi Po,
   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?

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Re: Icu4c branch

[Po Lu]

Jonathan Kenyon <J.Kenyon@ordinarygizmos.com> writes:

> Hi Po,
>    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 suggest trying the last version of the AOSP repository which still has
Android.mk files.

Thanks.

Re: Icu4c branch

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >    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?

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Re: Icu4c branch

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> 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?

ICU provides internationalization support for the libxml2 library (which
Emacs depends on to parse XML data.)

> Does it qualify as a system library according to GPL version 3?

No.

> Are the Android.mk files source files?
> Are they omitted from recent versions of the library?

Android.mk files are Makefiles that tell the Android build system how to
build a library.  Android themselves have ommitted those files from
their source code, as they now use another build system called ``soong''
which uses a different format, but for obvious reasons Emacs can only
use the Make-based build system.

Older versions of the Android version of icu4c contain Android.mk files.

Re: Icu4c branch

[Richard Stallman]

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I think that if you get these .mk files from the older version of
Icu4c, and adapt them to work with the current Icu4c sources, it
should be ok.

BTW, what IS the license of Icu4c?

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Re: Icu4c branch

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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>
> I think that if you get these .mk files from the older version of
> Icu4c, and adapt them to work with the current Icu4c sources, it
> should be ok.
>
> BTW, what IS the license of Icu4c?

A mixture of 3-clause and 2-clause BSD, AFAICT.

Re: Icu4c branch

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > BTW, what IS the license of Icu4c?

  > A mixture of 3-clause and 2-clause BSD, AFAICT.

Those are free licenses; this doesn't raise a licensing issue.
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