[Fribidi-discuss] License question to the project owners

[Paulo Soares]

I may have over-reacted but it sure looked like anothe Middle-East crisis. I
follow up in another mail.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Behdad Esfahbod [SMTP:behdad at bamdad.org]
> Sent:	Sunday, July 13, 2003 17:15
> To:	Paulo Soares
> Cc:	Beni Cherniavsky; fribidi-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject:	Re: [Fribidi-discuss] License question to the project owners
> 
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Paulo Soares wrote:
> > The Java reference code has a "Copyright IBM" but they don't elaborate
> any
> > further over eventual restrictions. About supporting Unicode,
> > BidiReference.java only deals with bidi types that can be found in
> > UnicodeData.txt.
> > 
> > I've already came up with a solution based in the reference code and a
> table
> > from UnicodeData.txt to get the bidi types so, you can drop the MPL
> question
> > and the need to get at each others throats. I'm sorry I asked.
> 
> I'm afraid you are misunderstanding things.  I am the current 
> maintainer of the library, and was reading around to handle your 
> problem.  In the meanwhile I was reading other friends comments 
> on the list, and I really liked the discussion.  Please don't 
> take it offensive, as I know each one of them, so I know that 
> they don't mean so.  By the way, about the IBM, I recommend you 
> to have a deeper look.  As a minimum, contact Asmum Freytag, the 
> one who wrote the code.  Better you send it to 
> unicode at unicode.org mailing list.
> 
> > Best Regards,
> > Paulo Soares
> 
> Sincerely
> -- 
> Behdad Esfahbod		22 Tir 1382, 2003 Jul 13 
> http://behdad.org/	[Finger for Geek Code]
> 
> If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.
>