docbook stylesheet copyright

[Massimo Manghi <ma...@unipr.it>]

Hi,

this is specifically for David, but I'm sending it to the list for 
everyone who might know.

The file doc/rivet-chunk.xsl contains the following statement

"This file is part of the XSL DocBook Stylesheet distribution.
    See ../README or http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl/ for copyright
    and other information."

I think the file itself is not part of XSL DocBook Stylesheet distribution,
whereas the file chunk.xsl (to which exists a reference in
rivet-chunk.xsl) is part of docbook and it's GPLed.  The problem seems
to be that the link quoted in the statement is dangling and this could
bother the inflexible guardians of Debian purity, because it might or
might not have been a reference to a license that denied some rights on
the file. If my supposition is correct I would remove the statement
from the file.

This might the last open issue in a copyright file which, like
most legal stuff, has grown to an appalling length now.

  -- Massimo

Re: docbook stylesheet copyright

[David Welton <da...@dedasys.com>]

> This might the last open issue in a copyright file which, like
> most legal stuff, has grown to an appalling length now.

Yes, that file is clearly something I came up with, so get rid of that notice.

-- 
David N. Welton

http://www.welton.it/davidw/

http://www.dedasys.com/

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Answer by Roy Keene on its Rivet work

[Harald Oehlmann <Ha...@Elmicron.de>]

Received from Roy Keene (tcler@rkeene.org):

Harald,

	I am alive and well.  I was vaugely aware that a new Rivet was released
with Apache 2 support (since I idle on the Tclers Chat and D. Welton
makes an occasional appearance there).

I still think Rivet/CGI fills a very important need -- using rivet on
anything but Apache.  Rivet/CGI even includes its own basic HTTP server.
This means you can convert a Rivet application into a single executable
(starpack) that can be run as a CGI or as a standalone webserver itself
(depending on how it is called).

Also, Rivet/CGI might still have advantages over mod_rivet on Apache.
Namely, obeying suEXEC directives so that users' Rivet code runs as them
rather than as the UID of the webserver.  This is important on
multi-user servers.

Let me know if you would like additional information, or have any
relevant patches you would like included.

Thanks,
	Roy Keene

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Re: docbook stylesheet copyright

[Massimo Manghi <ma...@unipr.it>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:19:40 +0200, Harald Oehlmann wrote
> I found this web pointer yesterday:
> 
> http://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/51
> 
> Should it be pointed/integrated somewhere ?
> 
> Harald
> 

I see the author refers to an old release of Rivet, we
could write to him and see what is his interest in
Rivet now, in case he overlooked the support for Apache 2.

What is the difference between his rivetcgi and the rivet_ncgi 
David wrote?

-- Massimo


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Re: docbook stylesheet copyright

[Harald Oehlmann <Ha...@Elmicron.de>]

I found this web pointer yesterday:

http://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/51

Should it be pointed/integrated somewhere ?

Harald

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