X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=9f940c2f240a28fa458bcab93935cc2e54602062;hb=f863f2a27bc18d0f3f600ae15794e9674fa7b18c;hp=ae27147fa244384086bd2c0e5af53cb992961036;hpb=b8a3e097b6ce2a08137e9eba5c6bcbdf9050e9dd;p=cql-java-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/README b/README index ae27147..9f940c2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -$Id: README,v 1.20 2002-11-18 15:05:49 mike Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.22 2002-12-09 16:29:44 mike Exp $ -cql-java - a free CQL compiler, and other CQL tools, for Java +CQL-Java - a free CQL compiler, and other CQL tools, for Java INTRODUCTION ------------ -cql-java is a Free Software project that provides: +CQL-Java is a Free Software project that provides: * A set of classes for representing a CQL parse tree (a base CQLNode class, CQLBooleanNode and its subclasses, CQLTermNode, etc.) @@ -20,13 +20,15 @@ cql-java is a Free Software project that provides: CQL is "Common Query Language", a new query language designed under the umbrella of the ZING initiative (Z39.59-International Next -Generation). More information at +Generation). The official specification is at + http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/cql-syntax.html +and there's more (and friendlier) information at http://zing.z3950.org/cql/index.html XCQL is "XML CQL", a representation of CQL-equivalent queries in XML -which is supposed to be easier to parse. More information at +which is supposed to be easier to parse. The specification is at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/xcql.html -include an XML Schema. +and includes an XML Schema. But if you didn't know that, why are you even reading this? :-) @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ What's what in this distribution? README This file VERSION The version-number of this distribution - src Source-code for the cql-java library + src Source-code for the CQL-Java library lib The compiled library file, "cql-java.jar" bin Simple shell-scripts to invoke the test-harnesses docs Documentation automatically generated by "javadoc" @@ -98,18 +100,18 @@ stories and, of course, large cash donations. LICENCE ------- -The cql-java suite is Free Software, which is pretty much legally +The CQL-Java suite is Free Software, which is pretty much legally equivalent -- though not morally equivalent -- to Open Source. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for a detailed if somewhat one-sided discussion of the differences, and particularly of why Free Software is an important idea. -cql-java is distributed under version 2.1 of the LGPL (GNU LESSER +CQL-Java is distributed under version 2.1 of the LGPL (GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE). A copy of the licence is included in this distribution, as the file LGPL-2.1. This licence does not allow you -to restrict the freedom of others to use derived versions of cql-java +to restrict the freedom of others to use derived versions of CQL-Java (i.e. you must share your enhancements), but does let you deploy -cql-java as a part of a non-free larger work. +CQL-Java as a part of a non-free larger work. SEE ALSO