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HP Releases E-Speak under GPL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-it-into-the-world dept.

Govardhanen Gopal wrote to us with the word from HP that they have released e-speak under the GPL. E-Speak is apparently "...designed to find services and negotiate deals over the Internet." HP is going to try to setup an advisory council and will be using the language internally.

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  1. Good job choosing GPL by PD · · Score: 3

    Thanks HP for choosing an existing licence instead of making up yet another open source licence. I hope you saved some money on lawyers by going that route.

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  2. Re:Yeehaw by AMK · · Score: 3
    It seems to be a set of APIs for writing components that either provide a service of some sort, or access some such service. This sort of thing is greatly needed, as shown by all the various efforts that have been springing up - XML-RPC is one, SOAP another, and E-speak yet another. E-speak seems far more complex than the others -- my head exploded a few times while trying to read the architecture document -- but then it's tackling the problem at a much higher level than the other protocols. Maybe I need to try struggling through the docs again. (You have to register as a developer to get your paws on the programming docs, but it's free.)

    Note that HP has a bunch of RFPs on Source Exchange that are related to E-speak.