Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Before we start here's a little background on the hyphenation stuff: Our hyphenation file are XML files that are derived from TeX hyphenation Under what license where the original TeX files ? 2. If the former (of [1]) is true, we need a grant from the copyright holder of the original

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Folks, See below the Latex License. http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html It seems to me that clause '8.B makes this license more restrictive than the ASF license - and we thus should not allow code(fragements) which are under this license in downloads from ASF infrastructure. Or am

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Thanks, Steven and Dirk for responding! On 17.03.2003 14:28:44 Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: Before we start here's a little background on the hyphenation stuff: Our hyphenation file are XML files that are derived from TeX hyphenation Under what license where the original TeX files ?

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Jeremias Maerki
There's another IMO: Clause 7 expects a restriction that the ASL can't provide. On 17.03.2003 14:32:16 Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: See below the Latex License. http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html It seems to me that clause '8.B makes this license more restrictive than the ASF

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've just received that email. The original author is willing to fax in a grant. Question now: Where can I find the form? I've only found the one for committers. Thanks a lot! On 17.03.2003 15:23:55 Jeremias Maerki wrote: I've received an email a few minutes ago from a FOP contributor telling

RE: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Victor Mote
Jeremias Maerki wrote: And then there's the files from the original TeX distribution by Donald Knuth which are assumed to be in the public domain but with certain restrictions (modified file shall not contain the same filename as the original). Problem there is that there is not really

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Thanks, Greg and Nicola, for your answers. I've already sent the form to the person I mentioned. Now that most of my questions have been resolved I'm off to distribute quite a bunch of these forms to all the various copyright holders. After it has been suggested that every single file submitted

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I haven't received any reactions to my post. We still have our pending release on hold until the issues are resolved. I wonder if I have taken the wrong approach. Can anybody advise? Thanks! On 06.03.2003 11:10:28 Jeremias Maerki wrote: Hello all (licensing specialists, XML PMC people, fop-devs)

XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hello all (licensing specialists, XML PMC people, fop-devs) (I don't know where might be the best place to discuss this. fop-dev is currently very low-traffic.) The FOP team needs help. In February we realized that we had problematic hyphenation pattern files in our codebase. For example, some