Copying Docutils

Public Domain Dedication

The persons who have associated their work with this project (the "Dedicator": David Goodger and the many contributors to the Docutils project) hereby dedicate the entire copyright, less the exceptions listed below, in the work of authorship known as "Docutils" identified below (the "Work") to the public domain.

The primary repository for the Work is the Internet World Wide Web site <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/>. The Work consists of the files within the "docutils" module of the Docutils project Subversion repository (http://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/), whose Internet web interface is located at <https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code>. Files dedicated to the public domain may be identified by the inclusion, near the beginning of each file, of a declaration of the form:

Copyright: This document/module/DTD/stylesheet/file/etc. has been
           placed in the public domain.

Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of Dedicator's heirs and successors. Dedicator intends this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work. Dedicator understands that such relinquishment of all rights includes the relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) those copyrights in the Work.

Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

(This dedication is derived from the text of the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication. [1])

Exceptions

The exceptions to the Public Domain Dedication above are:

• docutils/utils/smartquotes.py

  Copyright © 2011 Günter Milde, based on SmartyPants © 2003 John Gruber (released under a "revised" BSD 3-Clause License included in the file) and smartypants.py © 2004, 2007 Chad Miller. Released under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause License (local copy).

• docutils/utils/math/latex2mathml.py

  Copyright © Jens Jørgen Mortensen, Günter Milde. Released under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause License (local copy).

• docutils/utils/math/math2html.py,

  docutils/writers/html5_polyglot/math.css

  Copyright © 2009,2010 Alex Fernández; 2021 Günter Milde

  These files were part of eLyXer, released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. The author relicensed them for Docutils under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause License (local copy).

• docutils/__main__.py,

  docutils/parsers/commonmark_wrapper.py,

  docutils/parsers/recommonmark_wrapper.py,

  docutils/utils/error_reporting.py,

  docutils/utils/math/__init__.py,

  docutils/utils/math/latex2mathml.py,

  docutils/utils/math/tex2mathml_extern.py,

  docutils/utils/punctuation_chars.py,

  docutils/utils/smartquotes.py,

  docutils/writers/html5_polyglot/__init__.py,

  docutils/writers/html5_polyglot/*.css,

  docutils/writers/latex2e/docutils.sty,

  docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py,

  test/test_parsers/test_recommonmark/*.py,

  test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_directives/test__init__.py,

  test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_directives/test_code_parsing.py,

  test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_line_length_limit_default.py,

  test/test_parsers/test_rst/test_line_length_limit.py,

  test/test_writers/test_latex2e_misc.py,

  test/transforms/test_smartquotes.py,

  tools/docutils-cli.py,

  tools/rst2html5.py

  Copyright © Günter Milde. Released under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause License (local copy).

• docutils/utils/roman.py

  copyright by Mark Pilgrim, released under the Zope Public License Version 2.1 (local copy).

• tools/editors/emacs/rst.el

  copyright by Free Software Foundation, Inc., released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later (local copy).

All used licenses are OSI-approved and GPL-compatible.

Plaintext versions of all the linked-to licenses are provided in the licenses directory.