[tex-hyphen] License of hyphenation patterns

[Joseph Wright]

On 10/12/2015 19:18, Xiangye Xiao (肖湘晔) wrote:
> After reminded by Author and Claudio (cc'ed here), I realize reaching out
> tug hyphenation mailing list can be more efficient to get connected with
> authors. Could you/TUG help coordinate with authors to change license of
> hyphenation pattern files so that we can use the data? MIT/BSD/Apache
> licenses are acceptable to us, while LPPL/GPL/LGPL v3 are not acceptable.
> Unicode license also works for us but it requires to make Unicode joint
> copyright owner.
> 
> I am not good at the open source licenses, but as far as I know
> MIT/BSD/Apache are liberal and won't affect LaTeX/TeX to use the data. I
> probably can arrange a meeting with an open source license expert on our
> team to answer potential questions if needed.

I'm not a license expert either, but wonder if you could outline what's
the issue with the LPPL here?

Joseph