[XML-SIG] license questions

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:15:19 +0100


> The unit tests coming from ParsedXML currently come with the ZPL. I 
> don't want to introduce another license into PyXML without some permission.
> Opinions?

You have permission. Just integrate the license text into LICENCE. If
it is a longer text, integrate it referring to the file name.

> Alternatively I could ask Zope Corporation about relicensing. If this is
> preferred, which license would be the one we want to use?

Licensing under the expat license seems simplest. That is the license
text

<licence>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
</licence>

Regards,
Martin