John, I will not agree to make the braille tables voluntary contributions to the archive. A braille translator is useless without braille tables. ViewPlus has supported development of liblouis because we thought that a worldwide open source braille translator would reduce costs and improve quality of braille for everybody. It will not achieve this goal if people who develop tables keep them proprietary. -----Original Message----- From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:44 PM To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] New License Proposal Hello, We probably all want liblouis and liblouisxml to have as few restrictions on its use and on contributing to it as possible. A few days ago I sent a message about switching to the LGPL licnse from GPL. However, the license that I would really like the software to have is the one used for libxml2, on which liblouisxml depedds heavily. This is in turn an adaptation of the MIT license. I have in turn modified the license to meet the need to make liblouind liblouisxml as widely available as possible. Adoption of the license is of course contengent on the approval of the BRLTTY team. The license is presented below. -------------------- Copyright (C) 2003-2008 ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. and JJB Software, Inc. The copyright holders acknowledge their debt to the BRLTTY screen reader for the original source code. This license is approved by the BRLTTY team and has NO EFFECT on the licensing of their software. All Rights Reserved. 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 DANIEL VEILLARD 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. Except as contained in this notice, neither the name of ViewPlus Technologies Inc. nor JJB Software, Inc. shall be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from them. Persons using or dealing in this software are urged to publish any braille translation tables or semantic-action files which they may develop, so as to assist others who may wish to use this software. This is a non-binding request. -- John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer JJB Software, Inc. http://www.jjb-software.com Madison, WI USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com