- From: Joe Kopena <joe@plan.mcs.drexel.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 06:39:14 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@btinternet.com>
- cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Danny Ayers wrote: > Is Jess still a bit locked license-wise? I've previously looked and there > doesn't seem to be a totally open Java Rete source, but an alternative to > coding one from scratch would always be to RMI into CLIPS, which also has > performance potential... For people thinking about using Jess: Yes, it's still got a fairly tight license. You can download and play with a binary trial version for 12 days or so. After that you need to ask for and process a licensing agreement stating that you're doing research or working out a means of paying for it if you're a commercial user. My lab director and I were just discussing how to work with the license to use Jess in a class on intelligent systems. A servlet providing a Jess service is one of the things we're considering. I guess the argument is that this license allows Sandia Labs to continue to support development of Jess. Whereas CLIPS hasn't been in active development for years (AFAIK), a new version of Jess with significant improvements was put out just yesterday. -- - Scarius http://plan.mcs.drexel.edu/ - ITCS Laboratory http://gicl.mcs.drexel.edu/ - GIC Laboratory http://dusers.drexel.edu/~dftc/ - Drexel Cycling
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