Peter: Sorry for the delay. There are subtle differences between all the FOSS licenses and there is an overview here:
http://opensource.org/licenses/category I could not recommend one without knowing the intent but many of these are likely good. Duane Nickull *********************************** Technoracle Advanced Systems Inc. Consulting and Contracting; Proven Results! i. Neo4J, PDF, Java, LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR, CQ5 & Mobile b. http://technoracle.blogspot.com t. @duanechaos "Don't fear the Graph! Embrace Neo4J" On 2012-11-17 3:20 PM, "Peter Murray-Rust" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Duane Nickull < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> Very cool project! I did not see any EULA on this declaring a GPL or >> similar style license. > > >Apache 2. I intended to include a LICENSE but I've probably missed it by >mistake. Will add LICENSE today. We don't use GPL as we want AMI2 to be >usable in any sort of application. > >What license are you using? I would like to >> introduce this work to some people. >> > >We work in a completely Open manner. Some of us are connected with the >Open >Knowledge Foundation and its work (http://okfn.org) and we shall be using >it for open Content Mining (though of course it can be used for any >purpose). The AMI2 project as a whole will probably be coordinated (in a >loose sense) there as we are interested in the SciTechMed applications > >We'd like to know of people's experiences and obviously if anyone can >contribute (say) information on fonts and glyphs that's probably the most >obviously generic thing at present. > >Known issues: >* bitmap images are bypassed just to save time and space in testing. >Should >be an hour or two to add them. >* some publishers use fonts in unusual colour maps and these have a >serious >impact on performance (ten times slower). That probably need a small >filter >in PDFBox. >* output is verbose (each character has a clip path). We can normalize >this. There's also quite a lot of debug (e.g. <svg:title> which allows >mouseover of characters for debugging. > >One issue is where we normalize characters. Authors and readers of STM >documents are not well versed in typesetting and so INCREMENT (U+2206) >would be replaced immediately by GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA (U+0394). >Similarly we will expand ligatures ("ffl") which most people don't even >know exist! > >P. > >> >> Thank you for sharing! >> >> So people can share in return. > > >> Duane Nickull >> *********************************** >> Technoracle Advanced Systems Inc. >> Consulting and Contracting; Proven Results! >> i. Neo4J, PDF, Java, LiveCycle ES, Flex, AIR, CQ5 & Mobile >> b. http://technoracle.blogspot.com >> t. @duanechaos >> "Don't fear the Graph! Embrace Neo4J" >> >> >> >> >> >> >-- >Peter Murray-Rust >Reader in Molecular Informatics >Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry >University of Cambridge >CB2 1EW, UK >+44-1223-763069
