From: Mark Kremer <mark@...>
Date: 2013-03-12T16:52:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] kramdown 1.0.0 released -- MIT licensed!

Thank you for your the great work on Kramdown and for releasing Kramdown 
under the MIT license!

On 03/10/2013 03:24 PM, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> ## About kramdown
>
> kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a *free*
> GPL-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a
> superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports
> standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various
> extensions that have been made popular by the PHP Markdown Extra
> package and Maruku.
>
> Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
>     http://kramdown.rubyforge.org
>
>
> ## kramdown 1.0.0 released
>
> Finally! After four years of development I proudly present you
>
> 	kramdown **1.0.0**!
>
> Naturally, it is recommened to update to this version.
>
> Although the version number now starts with one, the changes from the
> last release are mostly bug fixes and some small changes. The biggest
> change is the **license change**: Until now kramdown was released under
> the GPL but starting from 1.0.0 it is released under the **MIT
> license**!
>
> The MIT license allows the use of kramdown in a commercial setting.
> However, if you are using kramdown in a commercial setting, I ask you
> to contribute back any changes you make for the benefit of the
> community and/or to make a donation - thanks in advance!
>
>
> ## Changes
>
> * 4 minor changes
>
>    - New option `transliterated_header_ids` for transliterating header
>      text into ASCII before generating a header ID which is useful for
>      language like Vietnamese (fixed [GH#35], requested by K��� Anh)
>
>    - The quotation mark entity `&quot;` now gets converted to its
>      character equivalent when `entity_output=as_char`.
>
>    - A warning is now output for IALs/ALDs that contain not attribute
>      defintion.
>
>    - HTML footnote output is changed to use `class` instead of `rel` to
>      achieve (X)HTML4/5 compatibility
>
> * 3 bug fixes
>
>    - Fixed [GH#38]: Encoding problem on 1.9/2.0 due to incompatible
>      encodings -- the source string is now converted to UTF-8 before
>      parsing and converted back after converting (reported by Simon
>      Lydell)
>
>    - Fixed [RF#29647]: Abbreviations with non-word first character at
>      start of text lead to exception (reported by Stephan Dale)
>
>    - Fixed [RF#29704]: ID specified on atx style headers were not always
>      correctly detected (reported by Kyle Barbour)
>
>
> [RF#29704]:
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29704&group_id=7403&atid=28673
> [RF#29647]:
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29647&group_id=7403&atid=28673
> [GH#38]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/38
> [GH#35]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/35
>