Sigh. Let's try this again and hope of the cr/lfs are correct this time.
I am going to have to throw a tomato here.
I think that the syntax is really awkward here and it seems that it was
done this way to avoid a problem in the xml editor.
What problem are you trying to solve here? Copyright is required but the
MIT attributes are not.
So, I can design a updf file that contains a different copyright in the
comments without the MIT copyright in the Copyright tag:
<!--
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License
along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA
-->
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<DeviceCapabilities FileTypeIdentification = "Master description of device
or optional unit" xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation = "UPDF.xsd">
<Copyright Company = "Copyright (c) 2002 <Murphy rules>"/>
...
</DeviceCapabilities>
Your xsd cannot stop copyright in xml comments and cannot enforce the MIT
copyright.
Also, I think that this:
<!--
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and
associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission
notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS
PROVIDED "AS IS",
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED
TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF
CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH
THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-->
is more readable than this this long line:
<Copyright Company = "Copyright (c) 2002 <copyright holders>"
MIT_License_Line1 = "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any
person obtaining" MIT_License_Line2 = "a copy of this software and
associated documentation files (the" MIT_License_Line3 = "
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
including" MIT_License_Line4 = "without limitation the rights to use, copy,
modify, merge, publish," MIT_License_Line5 = "distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to" MIT_License_Line6 = "permit
persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to"
MIT_License_Line7 = "the following conditions:" MIT_License_Line8 = "The
above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be"
MIT_License_Line9 = "included in all copies or substantial portions of the
Software." MIT_License_Line10 = "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS
IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND," MIT_License_Line11 = "EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF" MIT_License_Line12
= "MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT."
MIT_License_Line13 = "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY" MIT_License_Line14 = "CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT," MIT_License_Line15 = "TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE" MIT_License_Line16
= "SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."/>
At best you can make the MIT attributes required but it still does not stop
copyright statements in the comments.
Tomatoes, ... err comments, anyone?
Mark
Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/
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