[Bug 450164] Review Request: ace-tao - The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) and The ACE ORB (TAO)

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--- Comment #35 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>  2009-07-10 18:37:59 EDT ---
Ken, for what it is worth, the only two licensing issues that I think remain
are:

ACE_wrappers/ace/UTF*_Encoding_Converter.* - These have a license from Unicode,
Inc. which, in part, reads, "Unicode, Inc. hereby grants the right to freely
use the information supplied in this file in the creation of products
supporting the Unicode Standard, and to make copies of this file in any form
for internal or external distribution as long as this notice remains attached."

The concern here is in the comments:

// It is not the actual code provided by Unicode, Inc. but is an
// ACE-ified and only slightly modified version.

An argument could be made that no permission to modify was given by Unicode Inc
in their license terms, but I'm inclined to think that a grant of:

" the right to freely use the information supplied in this file in the creation
of products supporting the Unicode Standard" is a wordy way of granting
permission to modify. I'll run it past Red Hat Legal to see if they agree or
not.

and

The files under the Sun Interface Definition Language CFE License:
TAO/CIAO/tools/IDL3_to_IDL2/be_extern.h  
TAO/TAO_IDL/be_include/be_extern.h
TAO/TAO_IDL/driver/drv_args.cpp

This is the real blocker. I've had some recent success getting Sun to relicense
some stuff, I'll send another reminder to my contacts there.

Don't give up hope!

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