Re: Question about using CPL-licensed software

[Geir Magnusson Jr .]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
The Derby community voted to accept DITA as the source format for the  
Derby manuals; see:

http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-derby-dev/200503.mbox/ 
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There is a license wrinkle to this, which has to do with the DITA  
Toolkit used for converting document source into human-consumable  
format, such as html, pdf, or whatever. So far, the SourceForge  
toolkit is the most interesting because it does what is needed:
http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-derby-dev/200503.mbox/ 
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The SourceForge DITA Toolkit has a CPL license.
Files in the Toolkit are meant to be copied, then modified for a  
specific project. This lets a project control the look and feel of the  
resulting documents.

Would Apache allow us to copy those CPL-licensed files, modify them  
for Derby, then check them into the derby svn repository?

If this would not be allowed, then we need to make it clear to the  
Derby community that we can use the DITA Toolkit (unmodified) to  
convert docs, but need to produce our own files that override  
defaults.

I think the safe way is to write the files that override the defaults.   
Otherwise, this is creating derivative works under the CPL, and  
distributing them from apache under the CPL, which we don't do.

geir

thanks,
 -jean

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