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Subject: Re: The Book Problem, Open Book Format proposal, Request for comments.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:55:53 03/03/06

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On March 03, 2006 at 14:52:28, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 03, 2006 at 13:59:27, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>
>>All of these have their shortcomings, so my proposal is the establishment of an
>>open book format.
>
>Absolutely, such an open book format would be very useful.
>
>>Would an existing format like Polyglot be a good starting point?
>
>Yes, the PolyGlot book format would serve well as a starting point.  There
>is one minor problem: PolyGlot is a GPL program, and the actual PolyGlot
>book code cannot be used by other programs unless these programs are
>also released under the GPL.  This isn't a problem to me (my program
>already is GPLed), but it would be unacceptable for most authors.  This isn't
>a big problem, though.  It wouldn't be terribly hard to write code for creating
>and using books in the PolyGlot format without using any actual code from
>PolyGlot.

I don't think that the Polyglot book is a good starting point.



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