<div dir="ltr">Thanks for your quick reply!<div><br></div><div>I will try to arrange a meeting. I will need to check whether our open source expert can make a meeting before holidays. Who will attend the meeting from TUG side and what time works for you? A small group meeting is preferred to make discussion efficient. <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Re Joseph's question, we want to use the hyphenation data but cannot commit to take on any other obligations <span style="font-size:12.8px">besides giving authors </span><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px">credit</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">. That's</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">basically the point of MIT, BSD or Apache.</span><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">xiangye</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Joseph Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk" target="_blank"><span>joseph</span>.wright@morningstar2.co.<span>uk</span></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 10/12/2015 19:18, Xiangye Xiao (肖湘晔) wrote:<br>
> Dear Miss Mojca and other active contributors to tug hyphenation data,<br>
><br>
> I found hyphenation patterns of many languages in <a href="http://tug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tug.org</a> (link<br>
</span>> <<a href="http://tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tug.org/svn/texhyphen/trunk/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/</a>>)<br>
<span>> and are interested in using the data. However, licenses of many pattern<br>
> files do not work for us. As such, I reached out to many authors regarding<br>
> changing licenses in the last few days. I got good and bad responses. Some<br>
> authors gave immediate responses, while some emails are unreachable at all.<br>
><br>
> After reminded by Author and Claudio (cc'ed here), I realize reaching out<br>
> tug hyphenation mailing list can be more efficient to get connected with<br>
> authors. Could you/TUG help coordinate with authors to change license of<br>
> hyphenation pattern files so that we can use the data? MIT/BSD/Apache<br>
> licenses are acceptable to us, while LPPL/GPL/LGPL v3 are not acceptable.<br>
> Unicode license also works for us but it requires to make Unicode joint<br>
> copyright owner.<br>
><br>
> I am not good at the open source licenses, but as far as I know<br>
> MIT/BSD/Apache are liberal and won't affect LaTeX/TeX to use the data. I<br>
> probably can arrange a meeting with an open source license expert on our<br>
> team to answer potential questions if needed.<br>
><br>
> Please let me know if you are interested in collaborating with us and if<br>
> you have any further questions or concerns.<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
> Xiangye<br>
<br>
</span>[Resending after managing to miss out full recipient list]<br>
<br>
I'm not a license expert either, but wonder if you could outline what's<br>
the issue with the LPPL here?<br>
<br>
Just to add that I assume the issue is not the LPPL (or GPL or ...) per<br>
se but that your use case requires a very 'permissive' license: correct?<br>
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Joseph<br>
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