Hoi,<br>When it comes to licenses, it is very much what you want to achieve as an organisation. When the aim is to have as many people adopt the SignText functionality, the BSD license will give other people / organisations the most options. It may mean that they take the code and run with it without giving anything back. This is what the GPL prevents.
<br><br>I do not understand why you would not opt for the latest version of the GPL if you choose the GPL.<br><br>Thanks,<br> Gerard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 5, 2007 10:22 PM, Steve Slevinski <<a href="mailto:slevin@signpuddle.net">
slevin@signpuddle.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi list,<br><br>Several people have recently approached me about releasing the SignText
<br>source code under an open license so that they can modify it and include<br>it in other applications. I think it's an interesting idea.<br><br>SignText has proven to be effective for writing and editing. I'm
<br>working on a new SignText that will be more powerful, but the basic<br>ideas are the same.<br><br>I think it would be a great idea if other applications copied the<br>SignText ideas. What better place to start than the original SignText.
<br>It could be integrated into Wikipedia, Omniwiki or any other online tool.<br><br>If someone knew how to use SignText, they could use SignWriting online<br>with all of these tools without learning a new writing technique.
<br><br>I'm not sure what license would be best for the SignText code. I'm<br>thinking either GPL v2 or BSD. Any opinions?<br><br>This would need to be a coordinated release with the ISWA (IMWA<br>successor) under the Open Font License. We also would need an open
<br>standard for SignText markup language. The current SWML-S is usable but<br>cluttered and incomplete. We'd need a STML v1 for straight<br>SignWriting. And a STML v2 for color, size and the inclusion of<br>Unicode, graphics and linking.
<br><br>The biggest negative would be the time required to get this ready which<br>would take time away from my current SignPuddle development.<br><br>However, the biggest positive would be we might see SignWriting start to
<br>pop up all over the web.<br><br>Thoughts, opinions?<br><br>Regards,<br>-Steve<br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">
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