Re: [xsl] mathML2SVG

["M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Um.... YESSSSS!!!!!! :D

As far as copyright....  It seems to me that Wendell covered this topic 
fairly extensively a few weeks back so you may want to check the 
archives.  I do know (and I completely agree) that it was his opinion 
(or at very least he was very intrigued) that a really good way to go is 
via Creative Commons.  You can select the exact elements  you want for 
your license, make customizations you feel necessary if the standard 
licenses don't fit, and then generate a license with a URL to point 
visitors back to the online version of the license written in real world 
terms that are linked to the actual legalized terms of the license.  I 
use version 2.0 of the attribution license for my web site/blog 
(http://www.mdavidpeterson.com) which basically states that you can use 
anything on this site, repost the content it contains, etc... but that 
you must simply refer back to the site and give proper credit to the 
fact that I created the content, or the software, etc...  Basic stuff 
that helps ensure that other can't just claim content from my site and 
use it as if it was original work.

You can find them at CreativeCommons.org -- but if Wendell is around I 
might wait and see what he has to say on the manner as I know he has put 
a lot of time and effort into the subject and when you got a guy like 
Wendell on the case you definitely want to hear what he has to say as 
there are very few people on this planet that can see things, understand 
things, and then explain these things back to you in a way that simply 
makes sense....

Hopefully hes around today but if not definitely give the archives a 
shot -- I would search for "creative commons" over say the last 45 days 
and see what it returns...   Look for anything returned that came from 
Wendell Piez.

Actually, interestingly enough, later tonight I am FINALLY going to take 
XSLTBlog.com live for the purpose of listing out of this world solutions 
(which it sounds like this could very well be), comments from myself or 
any number of my colleagues that frequent this list or a few other XML 
communities -- e.g. I know Kurt Cagle will be posting quite a bit as he 
and I talk about it all the time... in fact he is going champion the 
content development for another site of mine -- UnderstandingXML.com.. 
probably shouldnt have announced that quite yet but I'm excited about it 
and so is he so at least this will give people a heads up that it (as 
well as UnderstandingXSLT.com) will be coming online soon...  Anyway, if 
you want to send me a link to where it can be downloaded (or send me a 
off-list email and let me know a user name and password you would prefer 
and I will set you up a user account on one of my servers where you can 
post it and link to it using the "http://www.XSLTBlogs.com/downloads"; 
URI...  Either way you choose I am most definitely interested in what 
you have created as I am sure many people on this list would at least 
like to take a look at it and provide feeback...  If nothing else I will 
add it as a blog entry and try to see if I can help bring you some 
momentum for your project.

Looking forward to it!

<M:D/>

Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:

> Hi all,
>   Anyone here interested in a set of templates that converts a fairly 
> good subset of presentation mathML to SVG format using a fixed width 
> font?  If so, I'll post what I have and maybe some of you could help 
> improve it (now there's an understatement) for use with variable width 
> fonts and greater robustness.   Considering the time constraint I was 
> under it works fairly well I'd say.
> Question: by posting to this list, how does that affect copyright?  
> that is, is it necessary to include a GPL or something? or do I, by 
> posting here automatically give this some sort of life of it's own?  I 
> ask because I haven't really seen anything other than Schemasoft's 
> proprietary program to do this.
> thanks,
> Matthew L. Avizinis