Hi,
I've corresponded with a lawyer type at IBM who's associated with the ICU
group. He seems to know what the issues are and what I'm talking about, at
least in general. Not a surprise: there is a license issue. It seem that it
would not be possible to distribute ICU as a part of the Perl distribution
because the licenses are not compatible. This doesn't seem to be an immutable
situation, necessarily. IBM has a process for assigning licenses to their open
source projects and - in theory anyway - ICU's license could be changed. I'm
pursuing this.
This doesn't prevent Perl from incorporating calls into ICU. Perl calls into
totally closed proprietary libraries as it is (Windows for example) without
violating anything. ICU and Perl just can't be distributed together as one
thing at this point in time.
I've asked about using ICU in a limited fashion to generate Perl source code.
(This seems pretty safe to me, but who knows.)
I'll post further information as soon as I have any.
=Ed
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