Software & Multimedia Disclosure Form

1.  Title

TCB::RSS

2.  Creators

Tim Skirvin             TCB Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC

3.  Abstract of Software Work

TCB::RSS is a series of scripts and small perl modules used for creating
RSS feeds within the TCB group.  Basic update information is stored in a
file 'updates.txt'; this is then parsed and printed by other scripts.

4.  Sponsorship

National Institutes of Health   PHS P412-RR05969 	1-495873-392030-191100

5.  All Known Ownership / Licensing Issues Related To Funding

NIH standard government usage clauses - software funded by grant to be
made accessible free of charge for non-commercial use.

6.  Technical Details of the Work

  6a    Is this a stand alone project?
	No - requires TCB::Internal and XML::RSS with Perl

  6b    Hardware Requirements
	Requires a web server with Perl. 

  6c    Operating System Requirements
	Unix.

  6d    Describe User Interface
	Web interface. 

  6e    Required Utilities 
	Perl 

  6f    Programming Language
	Perl

  6g    Current State of Development
	Complete

  6h 	Identify any 3rd party code included
	None

7.  History of the Work

Version		Release Date	Changes from Prior Version
0.50		04 May 2005	Initial Version

8.  Publications/Presentations/and other Forms of Public Distribution

  Person	Internet Release
  Organization	http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/MDTools/tcb-rss/
  Date Released	(see history)
  Source Code	Y
  Version	(see history)

9.  Marketing Potential

  9a	What commercial software products are most similar to your work?
	None we know of.

  9b	What is the difference between existing software and your software?
	Simpler.

  9c	What are the commercial uses for your software?
	No commercial prospects we can identify.

10. Potential Users

  10a	Who are the potential end users of your software?
  	Site designers, system administrators.
	
  10b	Please list any parties currently interested in licensing your SW.
	None.

  10c	What industry groups or professional assocations include members 
	  potentially interested in this work?
	None.

  10d	Are you willing to assist potential licensees with use and future
	  development of the software?
	Yes.

11. Future Use

  11a	Do you think this software is patentable?
	No.

  11b	Do you think this software could provide a foundation for the
	  formation of a start-up company?
	No.

  11c	Do any of the creators have interest in starting up a company to 
	  further develop, market, and support the software?
	No.

  11d	Do you want the software to be made available through Open Source
	  or Academic Use licensing?  
	Yes.

Reasons for Open Source or Academic Use licensing

This software was written by Tim Skirvin of the Theoretical and
Computational Biophysics Group.  While it was designed primarily for
internal use, modern software engineering techniques were used in its
design, offering improved documentation and packaging techniques over most
internal projects of similar complexity.  One side effect of these design
techniques was that the software was also easily releasable for public
use, as long as a suitable software license could be found.

We wish to release the software under an Open Source license so that the
software can be used as widely as possible.  We feel that any form of
burdensome license would ensure that the software would offer a barrier to
use outside of our group, and that any such barrier would eliminate
virtually all possible users.
