The Gnome Documentation Utilities is a collection of programs and data files to help you build, maintain, and distribute documentation. This package is entirely free software; however, not all components of the package are under the same free software license. The GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License are used for particular components of this package, depending on need. You should have received a copy of both licenses with this package; see COPYING.GPL and COPYING.LGPL. If you did not receive these files, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. This document attempts to provide a brief overview of the programs in this package and their licensing terms. xml2po ------ The xml2po program is used to convert between PO files and XML documents. Within gnome-doc-utils, it is used primarily to translate documentation written in the DocBook format. It was written by Danilo Segan. xml2po is released under the terms of the GNU GPL. PO and XML files output by xml2po are unaffected by the GPL; you are free to license them however you see fit. gnome-doc-prepare ----------------- The gnome-doc-prepare script is used to initialize your source tree for using the gnome-doc-utils build utilities. It can also be used to create a template document and the necessary supporting files and folders. It was written by Danilo Segan. gnome-doc-prepare is released under the terms of the GNU GPL. The build files output by gnome-doc-prepare are unaffected by the GPL; you are free to distribute them however you see fit. The template files are separate entities from gnome-doc-prepare. They should specify their own terms of distribution. In many cases, they will be simply stubs, and will have no restrictions on modification or redistribution. As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute gnome-doc-prepare as part of a program that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include gnome-doc-prepare under the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. gnome-doc-utils.make -------------------- The gnome-doc-utils.make make script can be included into your Makefiles to build, verify, and install your documentation. It was written by Shaun McCance. gnome-doc-utils.make is released under the terms of the GNU GPL. Most files output by gnome-doc-utils.make are actually output using one of the other tools in this package, or using a commonly-available tool from another package. Thus, the files output by this script are not affected by the GPL. They may, however, be affected by the terms of the individual programs that are being invoked. We make every effort to avoid calling programs that will introduce restrictions on redistribution of your package; however, we can not guarantee that no such restrictions exist for files generated by tools outside this package. As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute gnome-doc-utils.make as part of a program that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include gnome-doc-utils.make under the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. XSLT ---- This package contains various XSLT files for transforming DocBook and other formats. They were written primarily by Shaun McCance. The XSLT files are released under the terms of the GNU LGPL. You may build customizations from these stylesheets using their public documented interfaces, using either xsl:import or xsl:include, with no restrictions on your customized stylesheets. You may also invoke the stylesheets freely, either with a simple XSLT processor such as xsltproc, or using an XSLT processing library within your program. The use of these stylesheets has no bearing on the licensing terms of the XSLT processing program you use. The files output by the stylesheets are not affected by the terms of the LGPL. In particular, some of the stylesheets output program files rather than simple data files. The generated program files are also not affected by the LGPL. You can redistribute all generated files as you see fit. Sometimes it is necessary to include small portions of the stylesheets within your source distribution to make building simpler for end users and packagers. As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute the stylesheets as part of a program that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include those stylesheets under the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. Images ------ This package contains a number of images that are used in the formatted output. They were created primarily by Josef Vybíral. These images are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute copies of your document formatted by the tools in this package, you may redistribute unmodified copies of any images used or referenced in that formatted copy without restriction.