[gme-users] open source license request

[Akos Ledeczi]

Van,

we are going to open source GME in the very near future.
There are some negotiating going on about the exact
license agreement. I hope these issues will be resolved
in a couple of months.

As you might have noticed, the way your models are
displayed is determined by a decorator that connects
to GME through a COM interface. So, you can create your
own decorators to do what you described. Showing the
contents inside the models, however, is not going to
be trivial, otherwise we would have already done so
ourselves. The in-place editing should be much easier.
BTW, you can start working on this now (i.e. before
access to the source), there are example decoators in
the distribution.

Finally, thanks for your praise of the tool. Regards,
Akos


> "Woods, Van NWS" wrote:
> 
> Hello all, and congrats on a great tool!!  I am very impressed.
> 
> My intent is to use this tool in my research to see how it might be
> possible to use GME as an early conceptual design tool for architects
> to
> be able to model design criteria and their dependencies between them.
> I
> very much like the system architecture from what I understand so far,
> especially the extensibility and use of OCL.  Very good decisions in
> my
> opinion.  One extension that I'd like to see is to render the contents
> 
> of a node in the node's icon as a bitmap, therefore giving a miniature
> 
> snapshot of its contents.  This would be great for state diagrams for
> example.  Secondly, I am interested in in-place rendering and editing
> of
> a node's attributes, ie a table inside of the node of attribute-value
> pairs with the twist that derived attributes could be visually linked
> so
> users could ascertain visually where attribute dependencies are.
> 
> My most important question however before I jump in is whether or not
> you intend to open source GME.  I saw a previous post mention that the
> 
> licensing has not yet been determined, and I wanted to offer my vote
> for
> any type of open source license as I would be interested in
> contributing
> time and effort from my research project towards this effort.  I am
> leary of jumping into projects where I don't have any assurance that
> if
> there is a problem I need addressed quickly that I can take care of it
> 
> myself (on my management's timeframe :), and secondly, if open source
> I
> have greater confidence that over time I can address issues even if
> the
> original developers have moved on to 'greener' pastures.
> 
> Thanks for the consideration!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -Van
> 
>  ____________________________________________________________
> 
>     Van Woods, Research Architect
>     U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
>     Engineer Research and Development Center
>     Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
>     206-764-3614
>  ____________________________________________________________
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