Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available

[Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@apache.org>]

On Monday, Jan 20, 2003, at 07:54 US/Pacific, md5i@cs.cmu.edu wrote:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>     You also have to realize XSLT-process depends on open-source 
>> software,
>>     but not free-software.
>>
>> Program that are open-source but not free are very rare.
>> This could be a misunderstanding.  Could you show us the licenses
>> of some of these programs, so we can check if they are free
>> software licenses?
>>
>> (You can also check for yourself--see
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html).
>
> The Apache XML Project page says that their code is released under the
> ASF Source Code License, which appears to be the Apache Software
> License.  This makes it a free software license, but incompatible
> with the GNU GPL.

Thanks for the clarification, Michael. This is exactly what I was 
referring to by making the distinction between the two licenses.

Most of the code used by XSLT-process is released under ASL, while 
Saxon and its components are released under MPL and a BSD-like license:

http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.2/conditions.html

I don't have any problem with such licenses, but they may create a 
problem if we try to incorporate them as part of Emacs.

Best regards,
Ovidiu