Re: [xsl] stylesheet licensing?

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Basically, I want them to be widely usable (even in commercial 
> products), though only if any changes to the stylesheets per se were 
> required to be open sourced.

Since the LGPL allows the use-by-call of code (as opposed to the 
use-by-inclusion) I would think that the LGPL would be the appropriate 
license for style sheets you want to allow to be used by non-open-source 
code. That is, I think that for the purpose of the LGPL a stylesheet can 
be considered a "library" in the same sense that a Java JAR file or 
Windows DLL is--it's executable code that you can blindly call without 
the need to first compile and link it into your own code.

As I understand it, the LGPL still restricts the ability to use the 
source code of the style sheets in derived works that are not themselves 
open source.

Cheers,

Eliot
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