Re: Questions about CCXML and CCXML interpreter

Thanks to Ken for clarifying the current state of OpenVXI (sorry I
forgot that Vocalocity had recently acquired rights to it from ScanSoft)
and to Ségolène for providing more background on the GNU licenses.

The GPL and LGPL can be very appropriate licenses, especially for
platform-like applications such as your CCXML interpreter, Werner. The
approach that Vocalocity has announced for OpenVXI mirrors the very
successful dual-licensing approach that MySQL A.B. has taken with MySQL,
i.e., offer a no-cost version licensed under the GPL and also offer a
for-cost version including technical support under a commercial license.

Robert

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 05:15, Ségolène Métais wrote:
> The choice of a Free Software [0] (as opposed to "Open Source")license is a highly political matter.  
> 
> The main question you'll have to answer to is whether you want derivative works to be distributed under the same terms (ie. distributed as Free Software) or not (ie. one may modify your program and redistribute it under a proprietary license, closed-source, etc.).  If you do want derivative works to be distributed under the same terms, then you may consider the GNU GPL [1].  If you don't, then there is the LGPL [2].
> 
> One important thing is to choose a widely spread license (the GNU licenses are the most widely used Free Software licenses so far, although BSD-like licenses are also often used).  Choosing one such license will allow you to eventually incorporate other people's code released under that license.  On the other hand, it will also make it easier for Free Software developers to use your code into their project.
> 
> You may also want to look at the Free Software Foundation's license
> list: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html .
> 
> [0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gpl.html
> [2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/lgpl.html
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> Ségolène
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> Werner Dittmann wrote:
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> >All,
> >
> >based on and strongly influenced by the Phonologies opensource CCXML C++
> >implementation I developed
> >a Java based version of the CCXML interpreter. The Java implementation
> >currently supports almost all features
> >of the C++ version. The Java implementation was done with J2SDK 1.4.2 and
> >uses Apache/Jakarta software,
> >such as Junit, log4j, commons httpclient, Xerces as supporting libraries.
> >
> >Because I would like to put this work in public domain I appreciate any
> >comments which license to use:
> >-GPL, BSD, Apache, is there a W3C license for publice domain/opensource SW?
> >
> >Any ideas where to place the software as opensource?
> >
> >Ideas, comments, etc. are appreciated.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Werner
> >
> >mailto:Werner.Dittmann@t-online.de
> >
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Received on Tuesday, 14 September 2004 07:56:17 UTC