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No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el? |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:04:49 +0900 |
Ulrich Mueller writes:
> I had already asked the following two years ago (see
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-02/msg00083.html>),
> and didn't get an answer then:
>
> >>> The files in lisp/international/uni-*.el are object files,
> >>> generated from UnicodeData.txt.
> >>>
> >>> Is it intentional that the corresponding source files (which are
> >>> in admin/unidata/ in CVS) are not included in the tarball?
>
> >> I guess so, otherwise they should not be in the admin/ directory.
>
> > But this will make it impossible to rebuild these files from the
> > tarball (e.g., for updating to a newer Unicode version).
>
> Could somebody please explain how this issue is different from the
> recent one with the CEDET grammar files?
I don't know if it is still true, but I seem to recall that although
you are allowed to use Unidata freely-as-in-free-software, the Unicode
Consortium wants you (with some degree of legal coercion) to refer
downstream users to their canonical originals, and not distribute them
yourself.
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, (continued)
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Ulrich Mueller, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/09
- Re: No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/11
No sources for lisp/international/uni-*.el?,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=