SignText license opinions

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 5, 2007

Hi Steve and Rodrigo -
I support this too...and I look forward to giving you all a clean and  
good ISWA under the OFL license!

Val ;-)

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On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Rodrigo Ferreira Bagni wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> I think it is a great idea and it would be of big value for the  
> spread of SignWriting.
>
> Something that I can assure you is that, probably, signtext is the  
> only WEB editor for sign language available today. There are some  
> other ones but those are desktop applications.
> I have searched all the WEB and I would be surprise if there was  
> another WEB editor like signtext.
>
> So if people, like me  :-), could use it to spread the idea about  
> signwrinting or sign language itself, it would be great.
>
>
> Regarding the licenses, what do you already know about them? I  
> mean, do you know what you want with those licenses or do you want  
> to know what they can offer to you?
>
> For instance, if you use GPL people will not be allowed to use  
> SignText in proprietary softwares, only on free softwares (there  
> many other licenses that are called GPL compatible, those are free  
> softwares). And they will be obliged to provide the modified code too.
> Do you know that?
>
> So, I think the first point is tell what you know or what you want  
> or what you do not know about the licenses themselves so we could  
> give an opinion.
>
> Of course, all that besides what you already mentioned in your e-mail.
> Because based on your e-mail I would suggest GPL.
> Something I wonder, why have you chosen GPLv2 and not GPLv3?
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2007 6:22 PM, Steve Slevinski < slevin at signpuddle.net>  
> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Several people have recently approached me about releasing the  
> SignText
> source code under an open license so that they can modify it and  
> include
> it in other applications.  I think it's an interesting idea.
>
> SignText has proven to be effective for writing and editing.  I'm
> working on a new SignText that will be more powerful, but the basic
> ideas are the same.
>
> I think it would be a great idea if other applications copied the
> SignText ideas.  What better place to start than the original  
> SignText.
> It could be integrated into Wikipedia, Omniwiki or any other online  
> tool.
>
> If someone knew how to use SignText, they could use SignWriting online
> with all of these tools without learning a new writing technique.
>
> I'm not sure what license would be best for the SignText code.  I'm
> thinking either GPL v2 or BSD.  Any opinions?
>
> This would need to be a coordinated release with the ISWA (IMWA
> successor) under the Open Font License.  We also would need an open
> standard for SignText markup language.  The current SWML-S is  
> usable but
> cluttered and incomplete.  We'd need a STML v1 for straight
> SignWriting.  And a STML v2 for color, size and the inclusion of
> Unicode, graphics and linking.
>
> The biggest negative would be the time required to get this ready  
> which
> would take time away from my current SignPuddle development.
>
> However, the biggest positive would be we might see SignWriting  
> start to
> pop up all over the web.
>
> Thoughts, opinions?
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
>
>
>
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