Copyright for sgml-data source package in 14.09

This package was originally Debianized by Susan G. Kleinmann
 on Thu, 13 Feb 1997.  Its maintenance had been
handled by Adam Di Carlo  and now by Osamu Aoki
.

* Catchall download location

Material not otherwise specified is available from
  .

* HTML Pro

The HTML Professional DTD is from Silmaril and was downloaded and
extracted from .  The
htmlpro DTD is protected under the GNU Copyleft License (GPL), which
on Debian systems may be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

* QAML

[The QAML] DTD is copyright 1994-1999 Justin Higgins and Rick
  Jelliffe. You can use it freely for any purpose under the terms 
  of the MPL or GPL. Documents created using this DTD are copyright
  their (human or corporate) authors and maintainers, subject to 
  local law, unless explicitly noted in the FAQ text or markup.

It was downloaded from 
On Debian systems, the GPL may be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

* RDF, Big5

The RDF DTD carried this notice:
  Created by: 
      Rick Jelliffe, Academia Sinica Computing Centre
      ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw
      http://xml.ascc.net/
      1999-02-26
      Copyright (C) 1999 Academia Sinica Computing Centre
      Free use granted under the MPL or GPL.

The same author and copyright applies to the big5*.dcl Chinese
declarations.  The Big5 declarations and RDF DTDs were
downloaded from
.


* ISO General Document

ISO General Document and standard entities were downloaded from 
 and carry the following copyright:
     (C) International Organization for Standardization 1986
     Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with
     conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in
     ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies.

The modified version of that document included here is
  Credits:
    Jaap Akkerhuis  discovered the ambiguity.
    Wayne Wohler  provided the original
    DTD.  Modification by Erik Naggum .
  Contact:
    ISBN 82-7640 assigned to Naggum Software, Box 1570 Vika, 0118
    OSLO, NORWAY.  Phone +47-295-0313.  E-mail: .
    This DTD will be provided free of charge, electronically, by means
    of electronic mail or receiver-initiated file transfer, to those
    who have legal access to the ISO document from which this is a
    derived work.  This published material will _not_ be provided in
    paper copy, except as required by law.


* ISO/IEC 15445:2000

ISO/IEC 15445:2000 HTML carries this copyright:
     Copyright (C) 2000 IETF, W3C (MIT, Inria, Keio), ISO/IEC
               All Rights Reserved

     Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with
     validating and conforming systems and applications as defined 
     in ISO/IEC 15445, provided this copyright notice is included
     with all copies.
It may be downloaded from 


* ISO 9573-13:1991

ISO 9573-13:1991 entities carry this copyright:
     (C) International Organization for Standardization 1991.
     Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with
     conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in
     ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies.
The entities were downloaded from
, provided by Anders
Berglund, the editor of the ISO 9573-13.


* HP

The Hewlett-Packard DTDs and entities carry this copyright:
     (c) Copyright 1987-1994 Hewlett-Packard Company
    
     Permission to use, copy, and distribute this Document Type
     Definition (DTD) entity set is hereby granted, provided that the above
     copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
     notice and this permission notice appear in supporting hardcopy and
     online documentation.  All other rights reserved.
    
     The name of Hewlett-Packard Company or the Hewlett-Packard logo may
     not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution
     of this DTD without specific, written prior permission.
     Hewlett-Packard Company makes no representations about the
     suitability of this DTD for any purpose.  It is provided "as is"
     without express or implied warranty.
    
     Hewlett-Packard disclaims all warranties with regard to this DTD,
     including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness, in
     no event shall Hewlett-Packard Company be liable for any special,
     indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever
     resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action
     of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or
     in connection with the use or performance of this DTD.


* Mozilla

The Mozilla DTDs (html-mcom.dtd and html-mcoms.dtd) are 
  Copyright (c) 1996 - WebTechs - Austin, TX http://www.webtechs.com/.  
  It was written by Dan Connolly  and is maintained 
  by Mark Gaither (markg@webtechs.com).


* MSIE

The Internet Explorer DTD's are written by Mark 
Buckley , and is described at 


Internet Explorer DTD and Mozilla DTD were downloaded from
; since that doesn't seem to be 
still available, you can also get them from
.


* W3O

The DTDs from W3O are licensed according to the following "DOCUMENT
NOTICE".  An HTML version is also available in
.
html.decl is also from the W3O.

                                DOCUMENT NOTICE
                                       
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  Institute of Technology, [3]Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et
  en Automatique, [4]Keio University). All Rights Reserved.
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/
  
   Public documents on the W3C site are provided by the copyright holders
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Note that I received the following clarification from the W30
regarding their license.

From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (W3C)" 
Subject: Re: copyright question concerning published DTDs
To: Adam Di Carlo 
Date: 22 Mar 1999 14:08:40 -0500
Replied: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:43:05 -0500
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At 12:51 PM 3/22/99 -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
 >Hello.  I have the responsibility of assessing the current copyright
 >of W3C DTDs accompanying your specifications, on behalf of the Debian
 >project .

Interesting question Adam!

 >I would think that the W3C is
 >happy to allow derivative DTDs so long as they don't represent
 >themselves as W3C standards?  If so, would it be possible to get
 >clarification about the licensing and rights granted for DTDs?

You are right with respect to our general approach. I suspect that as long
as the DOCTYPE is different from our own, and they attribute it as a work
derived from W3C, we'd give permission. Let me bounce this off a few folks
here, and I'll get you a definitive answer shortly. 


A further note on the XHTML materials:

  This working draft may be updated, replaced or rendered obsolete by other W3C
  documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working Drafts as reference
  material or to cite them as other than "work in progress". Please note that this
  document is work in progress and does not imply endorsement by the W3C
  membership.


* XML ISO Characters

The XML version of the ISO 8879 entities is from OASIS's XML Character
entities.  It may be downloaded from
 and
carries the following copyright: