On Wednesday 29 November 2006 08:54, Peter Parente wrote: > ============== > * 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.
This is great news! I'm cc'ing kde-accessibility. Although KDE cannot make use of this (yet), it's nice to have choices for the future. -- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
