Open Source Shakespeare open for business

Open Source Shakespeare, a Web site created for my graduate thesis, is available for your perusing. It’s in “beta” condition, meaning it’s not quite finished. However, I wanted to get some comments about it, so be nice. Also, maybe when Google spiders Catholic Light, it will start indexing OSS because of the link in this post. I submitted the URL several days ago, and Google still hasn’t visited.

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  2. You can download the code and the database that runs this site, and use them in your non-commercial project as you see fit. As long as you link to Open Source Shakespeare on your site (if you post your project to the Web), you’re welcome to use any or all of the OSS.
    Come on, Eric. Take the plunge: GPL it.

  3. Nah, no GPL for the time being. I still harbor the hope that it will be useful enough that I can sell or donate it to somebody. We’ll see.

  5. I’ve read the definition…in what possible sense is OSS commercial? I wouldn’t have a problem with people redistributing the source code. Maintaining a copyright isn’t the same thing as being “commercial” (i.e., charging money.)
    http://www.central-design.com/install_guide/node21.html
    “First, it should be explained that “free software” covered by the GPL is not in the public domain. Public domain software is software which is not copyrighted, and is literally owned by the public. Software covered by the GPL, on the other hand, is copyrighted to the author or authors. This means that the software is protected by standard international copyright laws, and that the author of the software is legally defined. Just because the software may be freely distributed does not mean that it is in the public domain.”

  6. …and as a postscript, some of the texts I use on OSS are open source, too, though I believe the Complete Moby Shakespeare is public domain.

  7. Eric,
    I wasn’t clear. You say that Open Source Shakespeare can be used “in your non-commercial project as you see fit”? This, of course, implies that commercial projects cannot use Open Source Shakespeare as they see fit. See heading number 6 in the Open Source Definition, the part about discrimination against fields of endeavor.

  8. Then I guess we can call it Open Source (-). I don’t particularly want someone else to make money from my work, but I don’t mind someone else using it in their own project.
    Basically, I don’t want some consulting firm to make some modifications and sell it to a university for thousands of dollars.

  11. Yeah, do you want Happy Schultz? Or ANGRY SCHULTZ?
    (“Happy Schultz! Oh, please, HAPPY SCHULTZ!!!”)

  12. I know were I’m not wanted. :::sniff::: I will walk away into the sunset until Epiphany to spare all from the wrath of ANGRY SCHULTZ. :::sniff::: Goodbye all!
    :~-(

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