Talk:Transana

License ??
This package was discussed recently on the corpora mailing list. Its not clear if it is still GPL, or if the license has changed (the website says "inexpensive" and does not seem to mention GPL) 99.153.64.179 (talk) 14:32, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * According to this it's not free or open source, only free demo and you have to purchase the full version. Pcap ping  12:20, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * According to this it's still open source. But not free. Whatever that means. They charge for the executables and blame it on legal obstacles: It is our goal to make Transana available for free to the extent that is legally possible. But as it's still under GPL, if the sources they provide are complete anybody may build and distribute free executables.--88.74.205.16 (talk) 17:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Response from Transana's Author:

These discussants don't seem to understand what the terms "free" and "open source" mean in reference to software.

To quote from the Free Software Definition: “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”

WCER charges for Transana because that revenue covers some of the costs of developing and supporting the program. If people don't support Transana by purchasing it, then I (the lead developer) will have to make my living on another project, and Transana development and support will, practically speaking, cease. I can't develop and support Transana as a charitable endeavor. So it's not like free beer. But it is like free speech, as anyone who wants to can have the source code to study and to alter and hopefully to contribute back to the project for the benefit of everyone.

Transana is licensed under the GNU-GLP. This license recognizes the value that software developers provide and explicitly allows people to charge for their work. "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy." The source code is available, but it's not simple to set up the development environment because we're talking about a very complex piece of software with several difficult-to-build contingencies.

David Woods, Transana Lead Developer — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidKWoods Transana (talk • contribs) 20:49, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Other options
other options that came up during discussion:


 * EXMARaLDA
 * FOLKER
 * Transcriber
 * ELAN
 * CHAT
 * CasualTranscriber
 * SACODEYL Transcriptor
 * VoiceScribe

See http://annotation.exmaralda.org/index.php/Linguistic_Annotation 14:36, 4 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.153.64.179 (talk)

Cleaned up
Gioto (talk) 22:04, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * David has same confusion over who was the author and who was the developer.