Archive for February, 2007
Alfresco, an Open Source license!
A few days ago, I’ve expressed my concern about the attribution clause (not longer available on their website) added to the MPL 1.1 in the Alfresco ECM. Today, Alfresco released the Alfresco 2.0 Community Release of their ECM under the GPL 2. Their branding is now so huge that the attribution clause became obsolete, they [...]
European Union Public Licence v.1.0 is available
The European Union Public Licence 1.0 (EUPL v.1.0) was approved by the European Commission on 9 January 2007. This page contains the official versions in English, French and German together with a preamble explaining the purpose of this Open Source Software (OSS) Licence. A study on the compatibility mechanism foreseen in the EUPL v.1.0, has [...]
Alfresco, not really an open source license
Alfresco, the Entreprise Content Management uses an Alfresco open source licence that has not been accepted yet by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org) due to one attribution clause added in the Mozilla Public Licence v1.1. Before deploying Alfresco be sure that the User Interface guidelines of your customer match the attribution clause constraint! “….II. Alfresco [...]
To read and write Open Document Format documents directly with Microsoft Word
Based on BSD like licence, Microsoft sponsored a great interoperable tool between the Open Document Format and Office OpenXML. The tool allows Microsoft Word users to open and save ODF files. Source: http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/ Bookmark to:
Welcome to i14y.net Online Community
i14y name Abbreviation for `interoperability’, with the `14′ replacing fourteen letters. Refers to portability and compatibility of data formats (even binary ones) between different programs or implementations of the same program on different machines. Bookmark to:
