<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter Constable wrote:</span><div><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The main concern is that _</span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;">users</i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">_ of The Unicode Standard won’t be susceptible to IP claims against them. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for replying and for explaining.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">> Since this is uncertain, the onus is on the advocates for encoding the script to resolve that.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, that may be the present policy, but why?</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">That policy could be changed.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A letter on headed notepaper from the President of Unicode Inc. personally signed to the owner of the Intellectual Property Rights explaining that the proposal is being considered, explaining clearly and in full the issues and the uncertainty, asking if clarity could be obtained and permission to proceed with the encoding and its application by users of The Unicode Standard be provided please and offering to pay a nominal sum of one United States Dollar as consideration, and offering the option of a joint press press release is, in my opinion, the way to proceed.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">William</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><br></p></div></div></body></html>