Thanks, Geir,
The "this is creating derivative works under the CPL, and distributing them from apache under the CPL, which we don't do." is perfectly clear.
Is this guideline specific to CPL? Or is it a general guideline to not commit files to svn that don't have an apache license?
In other words, if the derby community would like to use a DITA Toolkit with a different license should I ping legal-discuss about that specific license? I don't know how many toolkits there might be out there, but there's already more than one.
thanks again,
-jean
p.s. I'll poke around the apache xml projects to see if dita has appeared on any of their radars.
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Mar 4, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
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 PROTECTED]
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.
I think the safe way is to write the files that override the defaults. Otherwise, this is creating derivative works under the CPL, and distributing them from apache under the CPL, which we don't do.
geir
thanks,
-jean
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