- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:27:51 +0200
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On 30.08.00 at 11:16, Sean Palmer <wapdesign@wapdesign.org.uk> wrote: [quoting me] >>The parser used by XSV is some kind of weird semi-Closed Source thing. I >>dunno what the license terms are for the copy XSV uses, but I do know >>that you can't download it, you have to ask them nicely for an >>Educational/Research Licence. The W3C may be able to work out some form >>of licence with them, but I sure can't; at least not and redistribute >>derived works (i.e. a patch to the validator) afterwards. > >Yes, that is very strange - W3C should be entirely open source, but I >think that it is being developed by the University of Edingbourough. And I see they've since apperantly changed the license to GPL. I'll go have another look at it. Maybe this will solve the problems with Schemas if it will do what i need it to (i.e. all the hard work ;D). >>It also comes with only experimental language bindings and only in Python >>(ye gods, but I *hate* Python!). The only thing that makes sense without >>some *major* restructuring (read: build from scratch) is something that >>can be easily called from Perl (which the Validator is written in). And there even seems to be some binaries there so I won't have to start mucking about with Python to use it. -- As a cat owner, I know this for a fact... Nothing says "I love you" like a decapitated gopher on your front porch.
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