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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] A question about docbook stylesheet licensing
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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
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