Excuse the reply to myself, just wanted to clarify something:
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 10:10 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Because the REX software, and thus xmlformat, clearly meet all the
requirements of the open source definition, we should be able to use it
in our toolchain without incurring any difficulty. (REX probably also
meets the definition of "free software," although it is not copylefted
and thus does not share the same distinction as GPL software.) I'll
prepare an RPM of this package and see about getting it into Fedora
Extras. In the meantime, we can keep testing and evaluating other
methods of XML normalization. So far, xmlformat does the best job that
I've seen, but I'm sure there must be other tools out there.
An RPM is probably overkill for this tool. It's "just" (!) a Perl
script, so it would just as easily sit in the docs-common/scripts/
folder, along with a configuration file setting FDP standards for
normalization. Alternately, someone with more Perl-fu could check the
script for security and then try for FE. I think that doing so means
the maintainer is making some representations about security which I'm
not qualified to do... so you could call this the "prudent wimp-out"
factor. :-)
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