Congrats on the move to BSD licensing. This is excellent news! And, the rpms for LSR-0.3.2 are now also available as follows. Please note that thee directory structure at the SpeakupModified.Org domain has changed in preparation for our launch of yum repositories coming soon. the lsr-0.3.2 binary rpm is available at: http://SpeakupModified.Org/current/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/lsr-0.3.2-1.i386.rpm the lsr-0.3.2 source rpm is available at: http://SpeakupMOdified.Org/current/source/SRPMS/lsr-0.3.2-1.src.rpm Or, if you prefer, use anonymous ftp or rsync: ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified/fedora/current/ rsync -l SpeakupModified.Org::speakupmodified/current/ Peter Parente writes: > ============== > * What is it ? > ============== > > Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an extensible assistive technology for people with > disabilities. The design philosophy behind LSR is to provide a core platform > that enables the development of LSR extensions for improving desktop > application accessibility and usability and shields extension developers from > the intricacies of the desktop accessibility architecture. > > The primary use of the LSR platform is to give people with visual impairments > access to the GNOME desktop and its business applications (e.g. Firefox, > OpenOffice, Eclipse) using speech, Braille, and screen magnification. The > extensions packaged with the LSR core are intended to meet this end. However, > LSR's rich support for extensions can be used for a variety of other purposes > such as supporting novel input and output devices, improving accessibility for > users with other disabilities, enabling multi-modal access to the GNOME > desktop, and so forth. > > ================== > * What's changed ? > ================== > > The purpose of this release is to publicly announce the change of license on > the LSR code base from the Common Public License to the New Berkeley Software > Distribution License (BSD) official and public. The BSD license is > GPL-compatible but has no copyleft restriction. This change helps LSR better > fit into the GNOME ecosystem and allows other projects to build on it with > few restrictions. > > Some of the features planned for 0.4.0 are present in this release. A full > record of those features will appear in the announcement for that version and > are available in the ChangeLog in the meantime. > > Translations > > * ar (Djihed Afifi) > > ====================== > * Where can I get it ? > ====================== > > Source code release: > http://live.gnome.org/LSR#downloads > > For more information, visit the LSR home page: > http://live.gnome.org/LSR > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
