RE: standardizing interfaces for Unicode programming

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 13:22:19 EDT


I am such an ignorant about laws and quibbles, that I'm having serious
problems evaluating this announcement.

But, from the recent hot thread about the copyleft sign, I know that there
are many copyright/copyleft experts on this mailing list. So could someone
(including you, Tom, of course) help me with my layman's doubts?

- What is meant exactly by the concepts "open standards" and "open source"?

- What does it mean exactly that software and documentation developed for
http://unichar.org will be "open source"?

- What is the difference between "open source" and "copyleft", if any?

- What is Open Source (http://www.opensource.org/)? How different is it
from, e.g., the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/)?

- What is an "Open Source reference implementation"? Where can I read about
it? Is it a sort of distribution license? If yes, how different is it from,
e.g., the well-known GNU GPL (http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html)?

Thanks for any help!

_ Marco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lord [mailto:lord@emf.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 07 June, 2000 12.17
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: standardizing interfaces for Unicode programming
>
>
>
> Announcing unichar.org.
>
> unichar.org is a service whose purpose is to facilitate the
> development of Open Standards and Open Source implementations for
> Unicode software tools.
>
> If this service succeeds, unichar.org will become a resource providing
> high-quality, free, Unicode software, and specifications for that
> software.
>
> Please visit our web site at:
>
> http://unichar.org
>



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