[Ldsoss] Testors for FamilySearch API, Developer Website, and Support

[Gordon Clarke]

LDS Developers
 
We will be using a API licensing agreement very similiar to Ebays. This will be
a click-through
accepatence when you register with us.
 
See http://developer.ebay.com/terms/index-terms.aspx  Any comments are
appreciated before we finalized the agreement.
 
Gordon Clarke
FamilySearch Developer Services Manager

>>> Justin Findlay <justin at jfindlay.us> 8/3/2007 3:09 PM >>>
On AD 2007 August 03 Friday 02:07:53 PM -0600, Jesse Stay wrote:
> I should mention this is an excellent opportunity for you to be a
> contributor to open source - this should be an opportunity for us to
> write libraries (WWW::LDS::FamilySearch?) for the various languages we
> write in, so when it is released there is something out there for
> others to use.

Something I remember from the Tech Talk is that the licensing the church
wanted for code to interface with the family search API seemed too
restrictive, meaning that if Jesse or I wrote WWW::LDS::FamilySearch we
couldn't license it under the GPL or host it on CPAN, and it would be
precluded from being distributed as bundled with other software.  Am I
understanding this correctly?  My general impression was that the code
couldn't be licensed in a way that was open source compatible which is
ironic and disappointing considering the ostensible Open Source
endorsement I've previously sensed from the church especially in this
program.


Justin
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