http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10767
--- Comment #36 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2010-08-01 07:51:42 --- (In reply to comment #35)
If you think that Wine should copy unicode collation tables from Windows and be done with it at least think of a legal subsequences of this approach.
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't see much difference between reimplementing proprietary api with 1000+ functions and reimplementing particular sorting order.
Don't you see a difference between reimplementing something from scratch and copying from other place, especially since that place is Windows?
Wine implements windows-specific character encodings after all.
Wine implements it using the data tables provided by unicode.org
Please clarify this to me: If windows-specific tables were somehow obtained (e.g. indirectly via calling specific API functions, sorting strings, etc.), will they be incorporated in upstream wine? Or will this be rejected as possible legal hazard? I'd like to see some comments before I start wasting time on this. Any directions would be welcome.
Copying Windows data into Wine is not acceptable.