Re: [xml] License question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:59:29AM -0400, Adam Versteegen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding the license for libxml2 and the licenses
> for other libs it links to. I'd like to use libxml2 in a commercial
> application, and if I understand the license correctly I can
> distribute a binary version of libxml2 with my app so long as I
> include a copy of the MIT license with my (closed source) application.

  I don't think you need to keep it in your application, but it must
be present unchanged in libxml2 copies.

> Where i'm a little less sure is with iconv... If I build libxml with
> iconv, how does the GPL (the iconv license) affect my usage of
> libxml2? Because I link to libxml2 (which in turn links to iconv) is
> my app then subjected to the GPL? Do I then have to meet this portion
> of hte GPL:

  I can't tell for iconv. First there is many implementation of it,
second I doubt they are GPL, and anyway libxml2 can work without it.
It depends on your platform, your version of iconv, and I can't make 
any guess on legal issues for something I have no idea about.

Daniel

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