Michel PONS (contractor to CO-LaN as Chief Technology Officer) summarizes in a short presentation (access PDF here, 146 Kbytes) what COBIA is. As a middleware, COBIA will need to be installed, hence distributed, on each machine where an end-user will execute COBIA-based software.
In order to ease up development of software based on COBIA, CO-LaN is providing tools for developers such as code generators. These tools are part of what is typically called a software development kit.
The Methods & Tools Special Interest Group has proposed a total of three different distribution modes together with a licensing scheme common to the three modes. The third distribution mode is the source code repository.
CO-LaN wants to see COBIA succeeds:
- As soon as possible
- As widely as possible
- As safely as possible
But how to create trust in COBIA, not only from a technical point of view, but also from a licensing point of view?
The question of the COBIA license is also part of the evaluation form sent out to all participants of the CAPE-OPEN 2018 Annual Meeting.