[Fribidi-discuss] License question to the project owners

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote on 2003-07-13:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>
> > Fribidi is in C which will require an extra wrapper layer.  `UAX 9`_
> > has demo code in C++ and Java, is that of any use (code-wise and
> > license-wise)?  I must admit I never looked at it, just guessing that
> > it's worth a look since your library is in Java...
> >
> > .. _UAX 9: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-11.html
>
> The reference implementations have an strict license,

What a shame.  What's the use of a standard whose refernce
implmenetation is not Free or Public Domain?  Oh, I see it's a
standard made by a consorcium of corporations...

> and they do not support Unicode.
>
Do you mean, literally, don't support Unicode and work in unibyte
representations?  ROTFL!

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

If I don't hack on it, who will?  And if I don't GPL it, what am I?
And if it itches, why not now?  [With apologies to Hilel ;]