A call for open source DTDs

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:00 PM +1000 10/15/98, Rick Jelliffe wrote:

>You might also like to do something similar to my book (The XML & SGML
>Cookbook, ISBN 0-13-614223-0 see fourth leaf): I put the notice "The author
>does not assert copyright over any SGML markup declaration in this book,
>unless noted."  It is not enough to expect others to provide copyright-free
>declarations, authors have to do it themselves.
>

I routinely include in all my books a statement that all source code is in
the public domain and may be used, reused, and modified freely without
permission or attribution. I consider that one of the prime benefits of
buying the books. I certainly hope readers find my book useful, and want to
reuse the code they find there. I also want to avoid getting besieged with
constant requests for permission to use some three line bit of JavaScript.
It's not likely any book example is likely to be a multimillion dollar
program.


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