<i18n dev> [8] Review request for JEP 127: Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data

[Jeff Dinkins]

Andrew - good catch. We're reviewing.

On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:51 AM, Andrew Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Please review the JDK8 changes for JEP 127: Improve Locale Data
>> Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data
>> (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/127). The webrev is located at:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/6336885/webrev.00/
>> 
>> The main bug id for this enhancement is:
>> 
>> 6336885: RFE: Locale Data Deployment Enhancements
>> 
>> Along with this, the following bugs/enhancements are also implemented
>> in
>> this change:
>> 
>> 4609153 Provide locale data for Indic locales
>> 5104387 Support for gl_ES locale (galician language)
>> 6337471 desktop/system locale preferences support
>> 7056139 (cal) SPI support for locale-dependent Calendar parameters
>> 7058206 Provide CalendarData SPI for week params and display field
>> value
>> names
>> 7073852 Support multiple scripts for digits and decimal symbols per
>> locale
>> 7079560 [Fmt-Da] Context dependent month names support in
>> SimpleDateFormat
>> 7171324 getAvailableLocales() of locale sensitive services should
>> return
>> the actual availability of locales
>> 7151414 (cal) Support calendar type identification
>> 7168528 LocaleServiceProvider needs to be aware of Locale extensions
>> 7171372 (cal) locale's default Calendar should be created if unknown
>> calendar is specified
>> 
>> Please note that packaging changes that relate to Jigsaw module
>> system
>> aren't included in this changeset.
>> 
>> Naoto Sato and Masayoshi Okutsu
>> 
> 
> First of all, I'd like to say congratulations on completing this week and
> adopting the CLDR as a source for locale data.  This is something we've used
> for GNU Classpath's locale data for many years, and, with these changes, it
> should mean that the Java API itself should see changes which allow it to
> support some of the features present in the CLDR data.
> 
> However, I am a little concerned by the inclusion of CLDR data files in this
> webrev with a GPL header assigning copyright to Oracle e.g.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/6336885/webrev.00/src/share/classes/sun/util/cldr/resources/21_0_1/common/main/agq.xml.patch
> 
> Is this legal?  IANAL, but http://unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1 seems to
> state that the header given there should be present on this data.  The current
> files make it look like this data was created by Oracle this year, which is clearly
> inaccurate.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Andrew :)
> 
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