Re: beagle++

[Chintan Zaveri <smile sis net in>]

I already wrote to them and here is the conversation:

Am Monday, 19. June 2006 22:37 schrieb Chintan Zaveri:
> Dear Sir / Madam:
>
> Just came across your project, which looks really exciting. However,
> there seems to be no mention of license on the site. Please excuse me if
> I have missed noticing it.

http://beagle.kbs.uni-hannover.de/


>
> I was interested in learning, if:
>
> 1. Beagle++ is an Open Source Software

It's open source.

> 2. Under which license is it distributed?

Still debated, multiple licenses, inherited from beagle, sesame, apache, and 
jena. 
The research-project is funded by the european union, copyright is kept by the 
authors, results have to be publicly available (that's the current state I 
think, IANAL)

> 3. (If it is an OSS) I would be interested in knowing if there is a
> developer community and how does one involve in and contribute to the
> project? (Are there docs for the developers?)

Only the researchers here at L3S (names are at the publications page 
http://beagle.kbs.uni-hannover.de/publications.html)

It's a research prototype, so no fancy documentation right now, but we have a 
(currently non-public) wiki and mailing-list.



On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:38 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:23 +0200, Max wrote:
> > I just wonder why i never heard about it before. Has there been any
> > communication between the beagle++ guys and people on this list?
>
> I also exchanged some private email with them a while back, but nothing
> really came out of it.
>
> > Looks like they are still using a quite outdated version of beagle and
> > programming most of their stuff in java. The approach still looks
> > interesting. They use Sesame as a data storage for their RDF based
> > metadata.
>
> I checked out the repo and they seem to have a version based on 0.2.6.
> Not sure how complete it is.
>
> > I wrote them an email trying to find out what their plans are and what
> > licence they are releasing their code under.
>
> Good idea.
>
> Joe
>
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