[tei-council] Licences

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 9 Nov 2009, at 16:17, Dan O'Donnell wrote:
>
>
> I've been having an interesting conversation with George Bina of
> Syncrosoft about TEI licencing. Apparently we use different licences  
> for
> (for example) Vesta (GPL) and our stylesheets (LGPL).

Yes. the stylesheets are a resource, a library, which we want people  
to re-use.
The code in Vesta is a free-standing program which references that  
library,
and which its author wanted to GPL. George is correct, that cannot be  
combined with
closed-source code.

The Java code which Vesta uses to do the work is in Sourceforge under  
"javalib" and has
no licence at all that I can see :-{ We can happily make that LGPL if  
it makes
things easier for George.

This is a red herring, I''d say - Vesta is a shell which shows how one  
can write an end-user application to deliver TEI functionality; it has  
(or should not have)
any code which oXygen would need.

I think we decided long, long time ago, when Vincent's eyes were blue,  
to make our "library" code be commercial-friendly. So if
George sees code he needs, let's relicense it for him.

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