Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
Basically, I want them to be widely usable (even in commercial
products), though only if any changes to the stylesheets per se were
required to be open sourced.
Since the LGPL allows the use-by-call of code (as opposed to the
use-by-inclusion) I would think that the LGPL would be the appropriate
license for style sheets you want to allow to be used by non-open-source
code. That is, I think that for the purpose of the LGPL a stylesheet can
be considered a "library" in the same sense that a Java JAR file or
Windows DLL is--it's executable code that you can blindly call without
the need to first compile and link it into your own code.
As I understand it, the LGPL still restricts the ability to use the
source code of the style sheets in derived works that are not themselves
open source.
Cheers,
Eliot
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