Re: ICU 2.0 licensing & commercial software

[Markus S. <mar...@us...>]

ICU can be (and is) used in commercial software. Both the old IPL and the 
newer X licenses allow that.

It can be redistributed in almost any form according to the license text 
(for the exact text please see license.html of the release that you are 
interested in).

The IPL license for ICU 1.8 and earlier had certain patent implications. 
The X license for ICU 1.8.1 and up has almost no restrictions (there may 
be something about giving credit).

There are no fees.

We are delighted to see ICU being used in as much software as possible - 
please tell us about it!

Best regards,
markus

Markus Scherer  IBM GCoC-Unicode/ICU  San José, CA 
mar...@us... (also for SameTime)