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

2003-03-17 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 som

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 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

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 fi

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 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 orig

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)