From kde-accessibility Wed Nov 29 22:55:39 2006 From: Gary Cramblitt Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:55:39 +0000 To: kde-accessibility Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] LSR 0.3.2 - BSD Licensed! Message-Id: <200611291755.40019.garycramblitt () comcast ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-accessibility&m=116484099418789 On Wednesday 29 November 2006 08:54, Peter Parente wrote: > ============== > * What is it ? > ============== > > Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an extensible assistive technology for people > with disabilities. The design philosophy behind LSR is to provide a core > platform that enables the development of LSR extensions for improving > desktop application accessibility and usability and shields extension > developers from the intricacies of the desktop accessibility architecture. > > The primary use of the LSR platform is to give people with visual > impairments access to the GNOME desktop and its business applications (e.g. > Firefox, OpenOffice, Eclipse) using speech, Braille, and screen > magnification. The extensions packaged with the LSR core are intended to > meet this end. However, LSR's rich support for extensions can be used for a > variety of other purposes such as supporting novel input and output > devices, improving accessibility for users with other disabilities, > enabling multi-modal access to the GNOME desktop, and so forth. > > ================== > * What's changed ? > ================== > > The purpose of this release is to publicly announce the change of license > on the LSR code base from the Common Public License to the New Berkeley > Software Distribution License (BSD) official and public. The BSD license is > GPL-compatible but has no copyleft restriction. This change helps LSR > better fit into the GNOME ecosystem and allows other projects to build on > it with few restrictions. This is great news! I'm cc'ing kde-accessibility. Although KDE cannot make use of this (yet), it's nice to have choices for the future. -- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) _______________________________________________ kde-accessibility mailing list kde-accessibility@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility