Jean T. Anderson wrote:
I asked the derby-ppmc and legal-discuss lists about using the
SourceForge DITA Toolkit.
I guess there's no issue with just *using* software with a CPL license
(for example, lots of apache projects use JUnit, which is also under
the CPL).
But here's the issue. Files in the Toolkit are meant to be copied,
then modified for a specific project, which lets that project override
Toolkit defaults. But modifying those files creates derivative works
under the CPL and those files can't be checked into an Apache source
code repository.
Can't they be checked in as is, then pre-processed via a script to make
any needed changes? Or does the script that modifies those files also
violate the derivative work, since it's sole intent is to modify the CPL
files, therefore linked to a derivative work in some strange way. I
would guess that would indicate a patch file, which is a derivative
work. But, that file could also exist outside the realm, which causes
problems in itself...
So the derby community obviously needs to sort this out both near-term
and long-term.
Ross suggested working with forrest on a plugin -- and I think you're
seeing action related to that with his Jira entry. (My! that was fast!)
Yes. I think this work is directly related to another plug-in that is
in it's initial creation stage.
scott
-jean
scott hutinger wrote:
Interesting that forrest has just issued a DITA issue for Forrest. I
added the content for those interested.
http://issues.cocoondev.org/browse/FOR-461
Here is an overview of the issue:
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Key: FOR-461
Summary: Create a DITA plugin
Type: New Feature
Status: Unassigned
Priority: Minor
Project: Forrest
Fix Fors:
0.8
Assignee: Reporter: Ross Gardler
Created: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 3:54 AM
Updated: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 3:54 AM
Description:
A DITA Toolkit is 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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