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

[Sascha Brawer]

Type of submission: Request for Legacy Approval
License name: Unicode Data Files and Software License
License URL: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#LICENSE

Background information: The Unicode license is applied to data files and
software from Unicode.org. Since the mid 1990s, probably every computer
system in existence has been including Unicode data files. In addition to
the Unicode character database, the license is also applied to the source
code of the ICU internationalization library [icu-project.org], to data
from Unicode CLDR [cldr.unicode.org], and to other Unicode projects such as
data collection tools and test suites. However, at least to our knowledge,
nobody outside Unicode.org has adopted this license for their own projects.
At some point in the future, Unicode might retire this license and switch
to one of the more popular open-source licenses such as BSD or MIT;
however, this will need discussion among Unicode members, so any license
change/retirement might take a long time. In the meantime, we’d like to
request Legacy Approval from opensource.org.

Proposed entry in https://opensource.org/proliferation-report:
File under “Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses”.
Probably it is redundant with BSD or MIT — thanks for helping with the
exact classification here. Or, alternatively, perhaps it could be filed
under “Special purpose licenses” (only suitable for data and software from
Unicode.org).

Thanks, and best regards,

— Sascha
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