Re: [docbook-apps] A question about docbook stylesheet licensing

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Antti Karanta wrote:

>   Reading the docbook FAQ entry on stylesheet licensing
> (http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/reference.html#d17e1969) it is not
> entirely clear to me whether the license on the stylesheets is viral,
> i.e. can I distribute them with a commercial application without having
> to publish the sources for the said application? 

Yes. There are plenty of application which already does this -- e.g.
oXygen, XMLMind XML Editor, Epic, ...

> I tried reading the
> license (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/COPYING) but
> as IANAL, I’m not completely certain about whether this is a viral
> license or not.

Fortunatelly it is not viral licence, it's BSD-like license which is
probably the most liberal one.

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