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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook copyright issues
/ Rebecca Abbott Forgette <rforgett@cyclops.endinfosys.com> was heard to say: | but what is the protocol for using the DTD? Can you simply use it | without worrying about copyright issues? The copyright is clearly spelled out in each file: Copyright 1992-2000 HaL Computer Systems, Inc., O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ArborText, Inc., Fujitsu Software Corporation, and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the DocBook DTD and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of the DTD for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for declaring and referencing additional sets of general entities and declaring additional notations, label your DTD as a variant of DocBook. See the maintenance documentation for more information. Basically, yes, you can do anything you want with it as long as you don't call anything you modify "DocBook". Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Our years, our debts, and our http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | enemies are always more numerous Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | than we imagine.--Charles Nodier
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