File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 1.2
Notes:
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openacademia - A semantics-based publication metadata system
Copyright (C) 2006 Michel Klein, Peter Mika {michel, peter}@openacademia.org
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openacademia is a semantics-based publication metadata system that allows research
groups of various sizes to manage their publication metadata in a distributed manner.
Using openacademia publication information is maintained separately by each researcher,
while the system takes care of periodically collecting and merging this information.
openacademia also provides an easy to use search and browse interface for presenting
research results online as well as tools for inserting dynamicly generated
publication lists into a researcher's homepage and providing RSS feeds for individuals,
subgroups of researchers or the entire research group.
More information on openacademia can be found at the public openacademia repository,
the SourceForge project site and the openacademia Wiki:
http://www.openacademia.org
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openacademia/
http://wiki.openacademia.org/
Instructions on how to compile, install, upgrade and run openacademia can be
found in the doc directory. Compiled jar- and war files can be found in the lib
directory.
If you have any feedback or comments, please tell us! You can use the
forums and issue tracker at SourceForge, or contact us directly.
Good luck!
Michel Klein
michel@openacademia.org
Peter Mika
peter@openacademia.org
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Notices
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This product is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
General Public License, v2.1. Read the file LICENSE for details.
This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation
(http://www.apache.org/). Read the file ext/README for details.
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The GNU Lesser General Public License and Java: a clarification
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There has been some confusion within the Open Source community over
the status of Java jar files that are licensed under the LGPL. Some
time ago in an interview published on Slashdot.org, Dave Turner of
the Free Software Foundatinon was quoted as saying that Java jar
files do not fall under the LGPL definition of library, and that
therefore, for Java libraries, the LGPL is effectively the same as
the GPL. If this were true it would mean that any non-open source
project that uses LGPL-licensed Java libraries would be in violation
of the licensing terms.
It has turned out, however, that Dave Turner's words were misinterpreted
by the Slashdot editors, and that Java jar files are perfectly acceptable as
subject of the LGPL license. In response to a question about the status of
the LGPL in relation to Java, Dave Turner clarified the position of the Free
Software Foundation as follows:
"[...] The LGPL works the way everyone has always thought it works. Java
does not render the LGPL inoperable. Section 6(b) is intended for
cases like Java's JAR files."
(source: the Debian Legal mailinglist,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/07/msg00234.html)
The Elmo development team and the Elmo copyright holders have always and
will continue to interpret the Lesser General Public License in this fashion.
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Changes:
1.1 --> 1.2
-- New visualization: relation browser. Credits go to Moritz Stefaner (me@der-mo.net)
-- Small bugfixes
1.0.x --> 1.1
-- Two new visualiazations have been added: timelines [1] and clustermaps [2]
-- The efficiency of the crawling and smushing has been increased
-- New web interface design (a bit more Web 2.0)
-- Fixed a concurrency bug in Elmo, a supporting API
NOTE: when upgrading please save only the system.conf and index.rdf configuration files.
The parameters and their meaning in web.xml has changed; please follow the installation notes
to customize this file.
[1] http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
[2] http://www.aduna-software.com/products/developer_products/clustermap/overview.view
