Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@mithrandi.net> writes:
> There are still some copyright / licensing issues I need to look into /
> clarify regarding this package. The Sourceforge project page claims that
> the license is "Public Domain", but there is nothing in the source code
> or elsewhere to support this. In addition, the source distribution
> contains some W3C-copyright files (XHTML DTDs) which may not be licensed
> in a manner suitable for inclusion in Debian.
If it's the normal W3C license, namely the one below, then that should be
fine. It's basically a BSD license with a requirement to document changes
from the original. It's even GPL-compatible.
I'm fairly sure that all the XHTML DTDs are covered under that license.
It's standard for W3C work.
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