[tex-hyphen] License of hyphenation patterns

[Joseph Wright]

On 11/12/2015 13:23, Joseph Wright wrote:
> 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

Just to add that I assume the issue is not the LPPL (or GPL or ...) per
se but that your use case requires a very 'permissive' license: correct?

Joseph