From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 08:16:04 EST
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:04:07PM -0800, Adam Potolsky wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I have an application that converts XML to a readable text and back
> again that I plan to release shortly. I am trying to decide which license to
> use and I want to make sure that it is fully compatible with the license
> that libxml2 is release under. I have done some hunting around and according
> to http://xmlsoft.org the code seems to be released under the W3C IPR and
> the GNU LGPL. I then looked for the text of these in the code tree and found
> that every source file has this reference in it:
> * See Copyright for the status of this software.
> However, there is no file called Copyright. There are a pair of files called
> COPYING and COPYING.lib. One is the GPL and the other the LGPL.
> Which license is libxml2 really released under, and if there becomes a
> desire to incorporate all or part of my application into the libxml2 distro,
> which license would allow this and still allow it to be a stand alone app?
libxml is released under both licences as specified on the web page.
Please use the LGPL if you can for new code,
thanks,
Daniel
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