Re: [xml] [libxslt] GPL-licensed file being distributed with MIT-licensed libxslt

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:11:53PM +0200, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> On 16/09/2015 22:51, Mike Dalessio wrote:
> > It appears as though the file
> >
> >     libxslt-1.1.28/doc/tutorial2/libxslt_pipes.c
> >
> > is GPL licensed.
> >
> > This file is being distributed in the libxslt source tarball, which is at odds
> > with libxslt's MIT license.
>
> The same goes for doc/tutorial/libxslt_tutorial.c which libxslt_pipes.c
> claims to be based on. Both files are based on the MIT-licensed xsltproc.c
> but there's nothing wrong with that.
>
> > Any thoughts on what, if anything, should be done about it?
>
> It's only part of the documentation, so I don't see a problem.

  Simplest is to find and ask the authors if they are fine relicencing
those, hopefully they see no problem and I will fix this, I tried to contact
them, let's see how it goes,

Daniel

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