Services_Shipping is somewhat available

Firstly, let me apologize for the delay in this proposal for the Services_Shipping package and it's sub-package drivers, such as Services_Shipping_UPS. There is going to be a delay in the release of these drivers, which I will explain in this message. The Services_Shipping package is being developed by myself at Santiance Corporation. Currently we are planning on releasing the sources as BSD. Otherwise we wanted to go with AGPL, since it appears LGPL doesn't offer sufficent protection in the network domain. If anyone is opposed to this license and have a reason why it should be a different license, please respond to this message, contact me via my PEAR information, or respond to kris@santiance.com with the heading "Services_Shipping LICENSE". You may see the license.txt file at http://www.santiance.com/open/Services_Shipping/license.txt . The "homepage" for this package has been setup as http://www.santiance.com/open/Services_Shipping This gives a rundown of how to get the package. These instructions may not work currently as the PEAR channel is being setup. In particular I included some generic PEAR installation info, if this is wrong please correct me. You may read a user manual I am working on at http://www.santiance.com/open/Services_Shipping/man.pdf After reviewing some information about the UPS OnLine Tools it appears that our options of releasing the source may be complicated. We are committed to the open development of shipping tools and e-commerce solutions, but we can't violate any existing agreements. In particular, the "UPS Technology Agreement" (UTA) says in specific we may not distribute any product. If anyone has experience with this agreement, advice is wanted, but I also understand that NOBODY HERE IS A LAWYER! So, for the time being the abstract driver will be available in the PEAR proposal. Cheers, Kristopher Ives Santiance Corporation <rant> I am very disappointed in the UPS agreement and would advise anyone who will be working with this carrier to evaluate the license. This agreement requires that UPS has some degree of control over your source code. If anyone has any information about this PLEASE respond or contact me. </rant>