From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ovidiu Predescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:40:44 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043081556 23161 80.91.224.249 (20 Jan 2003 16:52:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18afA0-00060y-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18afKy-0007GS-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:03:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18af8C-0004ww-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:50:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18af6g-0004CN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:49:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aeyp-0000yN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com ([204.127.202.62]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aeyf-0000rO-00; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from apache.org (12-234-84-6.client.attbi.com[12.234.84.6]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2003012016404500200mmefle>; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:40:45 +0000 Original-To: md5i@cs.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Original-cc: rms@gnu.org Original-cc: burton@openprivacy.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10899 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10899 On Monday, Jan 20, 2003, at 07:54 US/Pacific, md5i@cs.cmu.edu wrote: > Richard Stallman 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