Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] TK-UI parser - why Flute?

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> What about the license of Flute? I recall this is
a W3C license. Is this 
> compatible? If there is a chance to use this parser with Eclipse,
I'd 
> like to have a closer look, too.

I *think* its ok but IANAL. The flute.jar COPYRIGHT.html
points to this:

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720

which says:

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
and its documentation, with or without modification,  for any purpose
and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include
the following on ALL copies of the software and documentation or portions
thereof, including modifications, that you make:
1.        The full text of
this NOTICE in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative
work.
2.        Any pre-existing
intellectual property disclaimers, notices, or terms and conditions. If
none exist, a short notice of the following form (hypertext is preferred,
text is permitted) should be used within the body of any redistributed
or derivative code: "Copyright © [$date-of-software] World
Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Institut
National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique,
Keio University).
All Rights Reserved. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/"
3.        Notice of any changes
or modifications to the W3C files, including the date changes were made.
(We recommend you provide URIs to the location from which the code is derived.)

One concern I have is the statement on http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/SAC/
that says that Batik is "Smaller and faster than flute!".
A larger concern though is, is anyone actually maintaining
Flute?  The download url says "/2002/06" and the zip content
file dates are 2002 or earlier.  Seems like dead code.

Kevin