> From: J. Scott Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:57 PM
> To: 'Tolkin, Steve'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] How to ensure user sees and agrees
> to a license
>
>
> Why not have it as part of the download instead of the
> software itself i.e.
> make it an HTML page that they have to pass through to
> actually download it.
Good idea but there are several problems:
1. We do not have a web site for things like this,
and creating that would be even harder.
2. A web site does not let me limit who gets this.
I plan to distribute it first to a certain group of people,
my fellow members of the W3C XML Query working group.
What the program does is generate XML instance documents
whose structure and content can be specified in a simple way.
Basically these will be test cases for the XQuery language.
I plan to distribute this by posting to our members-only
mailing list. But I want members to be able to provide a copy
to a co-worker who might be the actual user.
If the program proves useful I will attempt to get permission
to distribute it to a larger group, and maybe even
change to an open source license.
Steve
P.S. I read the email sent to the group. Please
do not also reply to me as an individual, to prevent duplicate
messages.
