[License-review] Request for Legacy Approval: Unicode Data Files and Software License

[Bruce Perens]

I understand these are legacy licenses. There is what appears to be an
interesting complication in the text:

*Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in these Data Files or Software without prior written
authorization of the copyright holder.*

The protected copyright holder's name is "Unicode, Inc." If we consider
that "Unicode" alone is also the protected name of the copyright holder,
this would appear to prohibit anyone from stating in advertising that their
product is compatible with Unicode. Certainly this is not what you want.

We were just talking about trademark restrictions in Open Source licenses
earlier today. Note my email at
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2017-November/003299.html
My advice applies just as well to this example.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Richard Fontana <
richard.evan.fontana at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://spdx.org/licenses/Unicode-DFS-2016.html
> https://spdx.org/licenses/Unicode-DFS-2015.html
>
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