We'll have a less formal than usual meeting on Thursday Oct 7, due to our somwehat formal meeting with Jill Burstein on Monday. However, I wanted to go ahead and meet as there are at least two interesting issues we should talk about in the near future.
First, it may be that Jason will talk a little bit more about Bleu, and perhaps elaborate a bit on how it works based on being able to experiment with the code. Second, in light of the talk by Eric Swilden's on Friday about patents, I thought it would be good if we had a general discussion about the Gnu Public License, and patent and copyright issues in general. In preparation for that, please read over the following: The text of the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html An explanation of the "copyleft" concept: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/#WhatIsCopyleft Also, browse around The League for Programming Freedom: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html This group is opposed to software patents and have quite a bit of interesting information that argues this point of view. BTW, while we do use the GPL, I am always very interested if anyone has any dissenting views on the wisdom of that. You should always feel free to raise such concerns - these are important issues that have real consequences, and you should fully understand how we are doing things. Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/x3XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
