[Fedora-legal-list] Re: License change between Unicode 15.0.0 and 15.1.0? Unicode-DFS-2016 vs. Unicode-3.0

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 4:58 AM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 4:18 PM Fabio Valentini via legal
> <legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The upstream project of one of the packages I maintain has changed its
> > license metadata from `(MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND Unicode-DFS-2016` to
> > `(MIT OR Apache-2.0` AND Unicode-3.0` in the last release:
> >
> > https://github.com/dtolnay/unicode-ident/pull/28
> >
> > The Unicode-DFS-2016 license text is indeed no longer available from
> > the unicode.org website, where it has been replaced with the
> > Unicode-3.0 license text.
> >
> > As far as I know, the Unicode-DFS-2016 license was applicable to code
> > derived from Unicode data - is this no longer the case? Has the
> > Unicode-3.0 license replaced it for this purpose?
> >
> > If this is indeed the case, does this need to be reflected in other
> > places (like the Rust standard library / compiler), which reference
> > the old Unicode-DFS-2016 license text, too?
>
> Glancing at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2105
> that seems to say that Unicode-DFS-2016 and Unicode-3.0 are equivalent
> licenses in the SPDX sense, so if that's true maybe it doesn't matter?

Yeah - reading up on all the tickets that have been filed around this
issue, that's the conclusion I came to as well.
I'll make sure that this change from upstream is correctly reflected
in affected Fedora packages.

Thanks,
Fabio
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