Licensing info
Info on the licenses for the software and the content in eConstruct.
The EConstructProject made the decision to make the central core open source. That central core is the eConstruct infrastructure . That meant that my main contribution (the taxonomy server) and the tools I made had to be OpenSource.
I did some looking around and chose the LGPL (Library GNU Public License). In short:
- you're allowed to use the software for free
- if you distribute the software, you've got to give the source code too
- if you change the source code, that modification is covered by the LGPL too
- you are allowed to use the library in your non-lgpl program without the need to distribute that program's source code
So the taxonomyserver, lexicon convertor, some visualisation stuff: LGPL. Everything is available on http://bcxml.net/.
CSTB's stuff, the catalogue server? They never put a real license on it, but it was meant to be open source. Treat it as public domain. Same for TNO's cataloguebuilder (excel plus perl script).
And the taxonomy content is public domain, too. Also no formal license here.
