Guidelines on submitting software to the catalogue

If you are contributing a software release please consider the following:

• Licensing: OMII-UK releases the majority of its own funded activity under a Modified BSD licence. This is a very permissive licence, approved by the Open Source Initiative, that allows both binary and source re-distribution for commercial exploitation.
• Structure and Installation: Most, but not all, of OMII-UK's software is based around Web Services.
• Coding: We have provided Java coding guidelines, derived from the Java coding styles suggested by Sun, that we suggest that you follow if writing new software.
• Functional Specification: In order to understand how the software you are developing behaves it is useful to describe what it does. This is encapsulated in a functional specification - an example of which is provided here.

It may be advisable to talk to us before contributing software by contacting support@omii.ac.uk.