[Fedora-legal-list] ISO-HTML DTD license

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 2009-02-16 at 17:38:39 -0500, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The w3c-markup-validator package contains a copy of the "ISO-HTML" DTD
> > in /usr/share/sgml/w3c-markup-validator/ISO-HTML/15445.dtd which
> > contains:
> >
> > [...]
> >      Copyright (C) 2000, IETF, W3C (MIT, Inria, Keio), ISO/IEC.
> >                All Rights Reserved.
> >
> >      Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with
> >      validating and conforming systems and applications as defined
> >      in ISO/IEC 15445:2000, provided this copyright notice is included
> >      with all copies.
> > [...]
> >
> > Is the "for use with ..." part a problem wrt. inclusion in Fedora?  The
> > definitions of validating and conforming systems are documented at
> > http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/15445.html
>
> Yes, it is a problem. That license is non-free.
>
> > If it is a problem, is evicting the file from binary packages enough, or
> > should it be removed from inside source rpms too?
>
> Evicting the file from binary packages is sufficient, we have permission
> to copy it.

Ok, thanks, I'll take care of it.