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Re: uninorm/nfc - Unicode version?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: uninorm/nfc - Unicode version?
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:08:25 +0100
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Hi Simon,

> I recalled another concern: libunistring is LGPLv3+, glibc is LGPLv2+.
> I don't know how glibc people will think about dynamically loading
> LGPLv3+ code

Yes, good point.

> A daemon approach with a smaller wrapper library to communicate with it
> would avoid this concern too

I'm not in favour of implementing bloated or technically bad solutions for
the reasons of copyright...

> -- would you be willing to relicense libunistring (or parts 
> of it, given that I'll probably stay at Unicode 5.2 at least until I've
> confirmed that it works fine with Unicode 6.0 too) in this case?

... therefore, yes, I'm willing to relicense the parts of libunistring that
libidna needs under LGPLv2+. Please come back to me again when you have the
complete and minimal list of the modules that you need.

Bruno



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