[XML-SIG] The fastest XML parser around
Daniel Veillard
veillard@redhat.com
Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:11:04 -0500
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:51:39PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> writes:
Hi Henry,
> > Last time I checked (i.e. when I was still a W3C staff member and we asked
> > Henry Thompson and Richard Tobin to make RXP open source), the licence for
> > RXP was GPL.
> > As far as I can tell it still is:
> > http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html
> >
> > So it is hardly usable for any commercial or non-GPL framework.
>
> ReportLab paid the University of Edinburgh for a non-GPL license, enabling it
> to distribute pyRXP on flexible terms, as long as they preclude
> unbundling RXP and distributing it on its own.
Okay so basically, they are trying to get people to buy their product.
Fine, but they should say so :-)
It's very similar to the position of Qt/Trolltech, so it's not an
abnormally suprizing model, but not really the one expected in the Python
community as I understood. Anyway it's good to know you got some funding
from this.
Daniel
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