Hi Jonathan, On Saturday 21 February 2009 21:59:24 Jonathan Stratford wrote: > By "service", are you envisaging a proper web service?
Not at the moment, and maybe never, as we're aiming at a lightweight infrastructure. Our understanding of "web service" is a broad one at the moment -- something that is available on the web, that does something useful, and with which we can communicate in HTTP. And that is certainly the case with your converter :-) > I don't know much about those, and my program isn't one -- just a standard > exe with a PHP front-end. As such I'm not sure how easily you could > integrate it into anything else. As long as we can send input strings to the converter, it's OK. OpenMath input/output would be more convenient, though, that's why I asked for that. But otherwise we don't have any special requirements (like a SOAP or XML-RPC interface). > I'm happy to give you my program... Great, thanks! I'll see whether I can get it to run. > I hadn't thought about releasing the code under licence..no idea how I'd go > about doing so, but it might be a good idea if I could find out what it > entails. Here is a crash course: Common open source licences, such as the GPL, are usually of a "copyleft" style, which means that they are infected with the virus of freedom. Any user of software under such a licence enjoys the freedom to use this program for any purpose, to change the sources, and to redistribute it to others. Whenever somebody changes the sources, he has to redistribute the changes under the same licence, which makes sure that all future modifications will be as free as the original. You may want to look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_licenses. Licencing your software does not require more than adding the licence text as a file, commonly named COPYING. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
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