Re: XML and GNOME community

[Mark Andrew Hulme-Jones <ceemahj cee hw ac uk>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> Daniel.Veillard@w3.org wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  I have however a big question, does Gnome project accept contributions
> > which are not under the GPL/LGPL license ? Most of my code may be
> > covered by the W3C Copyright and I really want to know before starting
> > if such code can be incorporated in Gnome ! Could one of the member of
> > the Gnome Team have a look at the W3C Copyright and give me some feedback
> > (http://www.w3.org/Copyright.html), thanks.
> > 
> 
> The license is pretty much a BSD license from what I can tell.  I think
> then that if an XML parser is created as a library then it can be used
> in gnome.  Most of the applications in Gnome are GPL and the libraries
> are LGPL.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that you can create GPL applications and the underlying
> libraries don't have to be GPL/LGPL.  I derive this conclusion mostly
> through the fact that other programs exist that already do this, rpm
> being one of them.  It uses berkley db which is BSD licensed.
> 
> Hmm...on my RedHat 5.0 system /usr/lib/libdb.so is actually part of
> glibc.  Does that mean that the berkley db isn't used anymore?  That
> means that I could be pretty full of it.  Stick a fork in me. :)
I'm pretty sure I read someplace that Berkely DB is included as part of
glibc, and hence RH5


Mark
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