Klotz, Leigh wrote:

>  As I understand it, the LGPL would allow a web page author or system author
>  to use sarissa provided
>  the web page or system allowed the user to substitute a different version of
>  sarissa.  This might
>  be a little easier on the system side, a little harder on the "ASP" side.


I'm not sure I follow you here.

>  It's a lot less clear to me what the GPL means in this context, though.  If
>  I write a back-end server
>  system and use sarissa in a web page delivered to the browser, at what point
>  do I draw the line
>  for GPL applying to the server system?


To tell you the truth, I don't really know as I'm not a lawyer. I don't 
expect the server side stuff to be effected but I may be wrong. Read the 
license. Some points that may interest you are:

[[[
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
the scope of this License.
]]]

and

[[[
   10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the 
author to ask for permission.
]]]

If any open source project team sees licensing problems with Sarissa, I 
will hapilly provide permission to them to do what they wish with the 
code. It's just a script after all, nothing ultra cool or something.

Hope this helps.

Manos




>  
>  Thanks,
>  Leigh.
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@[...].gr] 
>  Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:20 AM
>  To: XML Dev
>  Subject: [xml-dev] [ANN] Sarissa XML-JavaScript library version 0.9b3
>  released
>  
>  
>  
>  Sarissa is a JavaScript library that provides a cross-browser interface 
>  to DOM extentions, XSLT, XMLHTTP and XPath functionality for IE and 
>  Mozilla (or Moz-based) browsers.
>  
>  Free under the GPL. This version fixes some stuff that where broken for 
>     Mozilla 1.4.
>  
>  Online docs:
>  http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/
>  
>  SF project page (dist, forum etc):
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarissa/
>  
>  

-- 
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