With the help of many people I've done an licensing audit last March. See the Wiki page [1] for the whole protocol. The original Dutch hyphenation file that was used to create nl.xml is published under the LPPL license which includes a restriction that makes it impossible for The Apache Foundation to use and distribute.
[1] http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?FOPAudits/March2003 On 27.02.2004 21:14:40 Simon Pepping wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:24:38PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > jeremias 2004/02/27 10:24:38 > > > > Removed: src/hyph cs.xml da.xml de.xml de_DR.xml el.xml en_GB.xml > > en_US.xml fr.xml nl.xml no.xml sk.xml tr.xml > > Log: > > Removed legally problematic files as done for the maintenance branch. > > What are those legal problems? The Dutch file nl.xml is based on the > hyphenation patterns created by the Dutch TeX user group, and are > freely distributed with TeX software. Why cannot FOP distribute them? Jeremias Maerki
