[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New License Proposal
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:33:18 -0800
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.
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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
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