Hej Tony!

Great to hear of your effort; I hope you have chosen to implement the NISO 1.0 standard.

I would urge you to carefully consider your choice of license, however. As I wrote last year when the issue came up in Koha, using AGPL in stead of the less restrictive GPL can have some unintended consequences. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/07/koha-community-considers-affero-license.html

It is still a reality today that many library resources release api's that are provided only to customers and often come with interface licenses incompatible with GPL. If you use AGPL, a library that modified the software to use it with one of these resources would be in violation of your license, even if they did not redistribute the software. If that's your intention, then fine, but please make sure you understand the implications.

Also, please don't confuse AGPL, which is a restrictive license rooted in copyright law, with public domain, which has no restrictions on use.

Eric

On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Tony Mattsson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are at the final stages of building an EBM system with AZ-list and OpenURL resolver developed in LAMP (with Ajax) which we will release into the public domain (AGPL). I'll put up a notice on this list when it's done, and you can try it out to see if it measures up :=)
> 
> Tony Mattsson
> IT-Librarian
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> Ämne: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists
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> Hi Code4Lib-ers,
> 
> I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive from the conference.
> 
> I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to Z list of databases and online resources (it's based in Access). We'd like to do something that looks more modern and is far more user friendly. I found a great article in the Code4Lib journal (issue 12, by Danielle Rosenthal & Mario Bernado) about building a searchable A to Z list using Drupal. I'm also wondering what other institutions have done as far as in-house solutions. I know there're products we could buy, but, like everyone else, we don't have much money at the moment.
> 
> Thanks for any info or advice!
> 
> Michele DeSilva
> Central Oregon Community College Library
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