Experimenting with Debian MultiMarkdown Package lead to questions ...
Ingolf Schaefer
I have made an experimental Debian MultiMarkdown Package. It is not
quite ready right now, but I came up with two questions while building
the .deb package.
1. What is the license for MultiMarkdown? It is written GPL in the web
page, but the README.txt file contains a custom license file (based on
the Markdown license?) How does this Markdown license influence
MultiMarkdown? (It is not clear to me, if it is actually ok to use GPL
for MutliMarkdown at all in this context?) Sorry, if this question is
annoying, but it has to be settled before I can think of submitting a
MultiMarkdown.deb to any official repository.
2. How can users add there own XSLT style sheets to a system
installation of MultiMarkdown. Right now, there is no way of using
custom XSLT styles in any other directory
than /usr/share/multimarkdown/XSLT, or am I wrong here?
Thanks for any help in advance,
Ingolf
Fletcher T. Penney
On 11/18/09 4:42 PM, Ingolf Schaefer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made an experimental Debian MultiMarkdown Package. It is not
> quite ready right now, but I came up with two questions while building
> the .deb package.
>
> 1. What is the license for MultiMarkdown? It is written GPL in the web
> page, but the README.txt file contains a custom license file (based on
> the Markdown license?) How does this Markdown license influence
> MultiMarkdown? (It is not clear to me, if it is actually ok to use GPL
> for MutliMarkdown at all in this context?) Sorry, if this question is
> annoying, but it has to be settled before I can think of submitting a
> MultiMarkdown.deb to any official repository.
The MultiMarkdown perl script is a variant of Markdown, and is therefore
subject to the license of Markdown.
The other software that *I* wrote is GPL (utility scripts, XSLT files, etc).
The MMD package includes software by others:
SmartyPants by John Gruber
a modified version of XSLTMathML
Text::ASCIIMathML
These packages are of course subject to the license of their authors.
> 2. How can users add there own XSLT style sheets to a system
> installation of MultiMarkdown. Right now, there is no way of using
> custom XSLT styles in any other directory
> than /usr/share/multimarkdown/XSLT, or am I wrong here?
>
> Thanks for any help in advance,
>
> Ingolf
>
> --
The whole MMD package goes together - the entire package can be placed
in a system directory, or a user directory. You can easily write your
own wrapper script that locates XSLT files wherever you like if you want
to allow users to modify this independently.
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