[Bug 162370] Print the table!

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Roozbeh Pournader changed:

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------- Comment #6 from Roozbeh Pournader  2009-01-15 20:00 UTC -------
Behdad, IANAL, but this is not an idea. The "idea" part of this is presenting
characters in a chart, which everyone is entitled to.

But copyright protects the presentation part of what Unicode has done. Random
quote from Wikipedia: "Copyright does not cover ideas and information
themselves, only the form or manner in which they are expressed."

So, if we want to print Unicode character charts with 16 rows and a hex digit
on each row and the rest of the character code at top of each column, write the
character code under each glyph, and gray-out the area for not-yet-encoded
characters, that may be illegal copying.

What I suggest is, if we really want to print character charts (as opposed to
what Nicolas suggested in bug 561908), we should redesign it. Otherwise, our
work could be considered unlicensed derivative work.

Still, since GNOME is a member of Unicode, we probably don't want to get on
their nerves. We can ask them officially, if you do not object.

CC-ing Luis, asking for insight and advice.


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