RISA 1.2 Beta!
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Many years of hard work are represented by this release. A big thanks to all of the people who have contributed over the years as either staff or students. This marks the first time the whole software system behind the Connexions site (codenamed RISA) has been released under an opensource license.
Licensing
Most of RISA is licensed under the GNU LGPL (more about that in a future blog entry) although we're still working out the specifics of the licensing for our XML languages. The only difference there is that while we want people to make full use of any XML languages and associated code, we don't want multiple incompatible variants of CNXML floating around out there all purporting to be CNXML with the same DTD and namespace. So we'll probably choose a license with a clause that if you modify the definition of the language you must call it something else.
Where is it?
The installation guide contains links to the various downloads and instructions on how to set up a RISA repository and website. If you have suggestions for improving the instructions, please contact me.
TODO
Besides fixing the inevitable bugs that creep up, there are a few things to do before a final release:
- More (and better documentation)
- Improve the downloads section of this site
- Once the new mathmlc2p stylesheet has been released, release a new version of our mathml2 package based on that
