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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of CASHeW-s - savannah.nongnu.org
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Sylvain Beucler |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of CASHeW-s - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:28:34 +0100 |
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Hi,
> Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: CASHeW-s
> System name: cashew-s
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> The purpose of this project is to facilitate the composition of semantic web
> services. It consists of two parts:
>
> * a process editor, which allows the individual services to be visually
> composed. The primary output target will be OWL-s, with possible extensions
> in the form of high-level functions. as seen in functional languages.
>
> * a workflow engine, that will convert its input (primarily OWL-s) into a
> process algebraic form, and then execute it. The individual service calls
> are bound to the actions in the algebra.
>
> The former will be implemented as a plug-in for the Eclipse development
> environment using Java. The latter will be written in the functional
> langauge, Haskell.
>
> At present, no source code is available, as the development of the languages
> used is still in progress.
>
> A further synopsis of the project is at:
>
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~barry/CASheW-s/
>
>
>
>
> Other Software Required:
> For the Haskell side:
> -- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) with generics extensions (currently
> only in CVS)
> -- Other supporting Haskell libraries such as HaXML and Haifa
> (https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/haifa/)
>
> For the Java side:
> -- The Eclipse development environment. This has been successfully
> compiled natively using gcj, part of the GCC, and uses SWT (a native toolkit)
> as opposed to Swing.
>
>
> Other Comments:
> Is there any advice the Savannah team can give as to the legal
> aspects of licensing an Eclipse plug-in under the GPL? Eclipse
> itself is under the Eclipse Public License, IIRC.
Yes, if you are the copyright holder of all the GNU GPL-covered code,
you can add an exception to permit linking with Eclipse - good to know
Eclipse does not have proprietary dependencies anymore, btw :)
Please have a look at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF
and then:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCGPLIncompatibleLibs
I have approved your project. You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailed information about the approval.
Regards,
--
Sylvain