Re: Using of tidy in a project that for fee
Charlie Reitzel <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:21:21 -0500
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Of course, you are always free to modify Tidy and incorporate it into your product. You can do this without any acknowledgement to the Tidy project. But, if you do so, you must not identify it as "HTML Tidy". I.e. it is either "All Tidy" or all yours. At 03:28 PM 3/19/2006 -0500, Charlie Reitzel wrote: >Folks, please correct me if I am wrong about this. But my understanding >of the W3C/MIT license is that it is OK to redistribute works >so-licensed. It is, however, not legal to present it as your own >work. Nor is it legal to profit from said work, per se. I.e. you might >reasonably include some form of Tidy in your product and profit from the >parts of your product you did write. You are simply redistributing Tidy >as a convenience for your customers. You might also provide instructions >on how they can update Tidy from http://tidy.sourceforge.net/. > >Legal issues aside, imo, it is good form to acknowledge use of Tidy in >some small, appropriate way in your product documentation and copyright >notices. > >Bottom line, use it and prosper. > >At 02:59 AM 3/19/2006 +0800, Holio_tidy wrote: >>Hey all. I have a project that is going to sell to a private >>consumers, and official tidy binary will pack with my project for >>parse some messy html into xhtml. Would my fee be illegal? I read the >>w3c license but I didn't understand it. Thanks in advance and have a >>nice day. :) >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >>that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >>and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >>_______________________________________________ >>Tidy-develop mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tidy-develop > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Tidy-develop mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tidy-develop ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642