<story><title>DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform</title><url>http://democrats.github.com/voter-registration/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This application is very, very simple; it&apos;s a practically the starting skeleton of a modern Rails/Devise application.&lt;p&gt;One useful reason to bookmark it: it&apos;s a pretty good how-to for &quot;any web application whose purpose is to spit out PDF files that need to follow a specific format&quot;. There are a LOT of business processes that work like that.</text></comment>
<story><title>DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform</title><url>http://democrats.github.com/voter-registration/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hoff</author><text>The first part of the software license looks to be BSD/MIT-like with the &lt;i&gt;to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,...&lt;/i&gt; sentence, but then there&apos;s this paragraph:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This permission does not include: (a) any use of the Software other than for its intended purpose; or (b) any use of the Software in any manner that violates applicable law. Any use of the Software other than as specifically authorized herein is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>