Re: shift_sjis_2004 related autority files are remaining

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: shift_sjis_2004 related autority files are remaining
Date: 2017-06-23 01:04:26
Message-ID: 20170623.100426.157023025943107410.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> Hm. I am wondering about licensing issues here to keep those files in
> the tree. I am no lawyer.

Of course. Regarding euc-jis-2004-std.txt and sjis-0213-2004-std.txt,
it seems safe to keep them.

> ## Date: 13 May 2006
> ## License:
> ## Copyright (C) 2001 earthian(at)tama(dot)or(dot)jp, All Rights Reserved.
> ## Copyright (C) 2001 I'O, All Rights Reserved.
> ## Copyright (C) 2006 Project X0213, All Rights Reserved.
> ## You can use, modify, distribute this table freely.

>> - It allows to track the changes in the original file if we decide to
>> change the map files.
>
> You have done that in the past for a couple of codepoints, didn't you?

I believe the reason why I didn't keep other txt files were they were
prohibited to have copies according to their license.

>> - The site http://x0213.org/ may disappear in the future. If that
>> happens, we will lose track data how we create the map files.
>
> There are other problems then as there are 3 sites in use to fetch the data:
> - GB2312.TXT comes from greenstone.org.
> - Some from icu-project.org.
> - The rest is from unicode.org.

Maybe, but I don't know how to deal with them.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp

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