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

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Sascha Brawer <sascha at brawer.ch> wrote:

The difference between https://spdx.org/licenses/Unicode-DFS-2016.html and
> https://unicode.org/copyright.html#License is a change from “Copyright ©
> 1991-2016” to “Copyright © 1991-2017”, otherwise they’s been no change. So,
> Unicode-DFS-2016 is still current. (If a change in copyright year has any
> implications for OSI or SPDX, it would be good to know.)
>

I do wish people would stop abusing the copyright date as a last-updated
date.  It cannot possibly matter to the Unicode Consortium whether the text
of its license enters the public domain in 2111 or in 2112!  Indeed, 2086
should be quite long enough to warrant leaving the copyright notice as
"Copyright © 1991" for good and all.

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John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
BALIN FUNDINUL          UZBAD KHAZADDUMU
BALIN SON OF FUNDIN     LORD OF KHAZAD-DUM
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