[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New License Proposal
- From: Eitan Isaacson <eitan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:59:01 -0800
Hi John Gardner.
I am an Orca developer and I have great interest in seeing liblouis
distributed side by side with Orca on a plethora of free platforms and
distributions. I don't personally have a great grasp of all the legal
matters at hand, but I know that license compatibility is an important
thing in the free software world, so I would advocate for any standard
Open Source license, I think most of them do a good job at protecting
both the creators and the users, and help keep the licensed software
free.
I recently sent out a mail to the Debian legal team to get their advice,
I believed I copied you on it. The entire thread could be found here:
http://www.nabble.com/Questions-about-liblouis-to15701903.html
Since the tables that are distributed today in liblouis are already GPL,
any derivative of those tables is guaranteed to be free.
Cheers,
Eitan.
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 19:33 -0800, John Gardner wrote:
> 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
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