Thanks so much for following up on this. Much appreciated!

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Veillard <veill...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 04:53:08PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:11:53PM +0200, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> > > On 16/09/2015 22:51, Mike Dalessio wrote:
> > > >It appears as though the file
> > > >
> > > >     libxslt-1.1.28/doc/tutorial2/libxslt_pipes.c
> > > >
> > > >is GPL licensed.
> > > >
> > > >This file is being distributed in the libxslt source tarball, which
> is at odds
> > > >with libxslt's MIT license.
> > >
> > > The same goes for doc/tutorial/libxslt_tutorial.c which libxslt_pipes.c
> > > claims to be based on. Both files are based on the MIT-licensed
> xsltproc.c
> > > but there's nothing wrong with that.
> > >
> > > >Any thoughts on what, if anything, should be done about it?
> > >
> > > It's only part of the documentation, so I don't see a problem.
> >
> >   Simplest is to find and ask the authors if they are fine relicencing
> > those, hopefully they see no problem and I will fix this, I tried to
> contact
> > them, let's see how it goes,
>
>   So I reached to John Fleck and he's fine with this
>
>   https://twitter.com/jfleck/status/655017833206714368
>
> as well as Panos
>
> : Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:43:45 +0300
> : From: Panos Louridas <louri...@gmail.com>
> : To: veill...@redhat.com
> : Subject: Re: Licence of example in libxslt
> :
> : Hi Daniel,
> :
> : Yes, sure, no problem. What do you need from me to do this?
> :
> : Cheers,
> :
> : Panos.
>
>   So I think we can remove the GPL header making the inherited MIT licence
> kick in:
>
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=fd83a88ce3f68db599a3a2c8f018cbc66f9be19b
>
>  so tell me how many hours of lawyer time were wasted on this issue ;-) ?
>
> Daniel
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