[liblouis-liblouisxml] Porting liblouis tables to biblos (was: Binaries for liblouisutdml)
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:27:42 +0200
Hi Juan Pablo
On 08.10.19 08:18, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
sorry to derail the discussion a bit, but has anyone here heard of
biblos? its a software that apparently is usable with screen readers,
intuitive and converts text to braille rather fast. Unfortunately, it
appears to use its own tables system. If conversion to that format or
liblouis integration would have been possible, that software would
definitely be the most robust and low cost, or gratis, solution out
there.
I see that there is some discussion of porting liblouis tables to the
table format of biblos. That is fine with me, if there is a better
solution to produce braille then by all means let's use that.
However, and here's the catch: when porting the tables you have to
respect the copyright of these tables. You cannot just take the tables,
port them and redistribute the result under some closed-source license.
When porting tables from BRLTTY to liblouis we got explicit permission
from the BRLTTY authors.
I'm not a layer so I cannot give a definitive answer but it might mean
that the ported tables will have to be released under LGPL as well.
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to
http://liblouis.org
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