The Derby community voted to accept DITA as the source format for the Derby manuals; see:

http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-derby-dev/200503.mbox/[EMAIL 
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There is a license wrinkle to this, which has to do with the DITA Toolkit used for converting document source into human-consumable format, such as html, pdf, or whatever. So far, the SourceForge toolkit is the most interesting because it does what is needed:
http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-derby-dev/200503.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]


The SourceForge DITA Toolkit has a CPL license.

Files in the Toolkit are meant to be copied, then modified for a specific project. This lets a project control the look and feel of the resulting documents.

Would Apache allow us to copy those CPL-licensed files, modify them for Derby, then check them into the derby svn repository?

If this would not be allowed, then we need to make it clear to the Derby community that we can use the DITA Toolkit (unmodified) to convert docs, but need to produce our own files that override defaults.

thanks,

 -jean

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