[publican-list] Support for commercial software, yay or nay?

[Jeff Fearn]

Hi, recently a bug was opened raising an issue related to supporting commercial software in publican, thought I'd chuck it up here for discussion.

The default DocBook XSL includes support for a number of commercial XSLT processors. When I customise the XSL I usually remove this support as I can not test how my changes have affected those processors and I don't like shipping stuff I can't test. I missed pulling out xep support in one place and a ticket resulted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467256

While I won't go out of my way to break support for commercial software, I don't really feel like supporting them for free either.

Discuss!

Cheers, Jeff.

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