On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 12:41 PM Richard Fontana rfontana@redhat.com wrote:
"Freely use the information supplied . . . in the creation of products supporting the Unicode Standard" makes it non-FOSS (leaving aside what it actually means).
In principle, if I wanted to use the information in Unicode files to create some competing standard, I've breached the license.
There are so many of these problematic legacy Unicode licenses in nominally-FOSS projects that we now have a "unicode-mess" label in fedora-license-data and a backlog of issues concerning them.
Thank you, Richard. This is useful information. I am pushing builds now to drop the problematic C/C++ backends from the antlr3 package. Since I have not been directed to scrub the offending files out of the source tarball, I have not taken that step.
Regards,