Re: LuaTeX 1.0.0?

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:37:12AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >From /usr/share/lintian/checks/cruft.desc:
> 
> Tag: license-problem-convert-utf-code
> Severity: serious
> Certainty: possible
> Info: The following file source files include material under a
>  non-free license from Unicode Inc. Therefore, it is
>  not possible to ship this in main or contrib.
>  .
>  This license does not grant any permission
>  to modify the files (thus failing DFSG#3). Moreover, the license grant
>  to attempt to restrict use to "products supporting the Unicode
>  Standard" (thus failing DFSG#6).
>  .
>  In this case a solution is to use libicu and to remove this code
>  by repacking.
>  .
>  If this is a false-positive, please report a bug against Lintian.
> Ref: #823100

Just a thought - I wonder whether anyone has considered contacting the
teckit developers?  It is only this one pair of files
(ConvertUTF.[ch]) which is a problem.  I'm happy to drop them a line
if not.

Best wishes,

   Julian