Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Genealogy OpenSource Tools

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The tarbal provided contains GIF files and Savannah cannot
host GIF files (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html) for more
information.  Could you please transform your GIF files into PNG or
JPG and submit your project again ? 

        Note that Savannah is a service to the Free Software movement.
We value ethics more than technical convenience, this is one of the
many differences with the Open Source movement. If you feel your
principles closely match those of the Free Software movement, could
you please avoid using Open Source ?

        Unless I'm mistaken, when you say "distributed freely by
SOFTEAM" you really mean "a proprietary program distributed gratis by
SOFTEAM". In this case it's free as in beer, not as in freedom :-)
Does your program actually depend on this program ? If yes, could you
switch to a Free Software tool such as dia in order to allow people
who value freedom to use the ULM diagrams you produce ?

        Thanks in advance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Cyril Picard <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Genealogy OpenSource Tools
 > System name: geneatools
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Description:
 > My project intends to provide GNU/Linux genealogists a free, open-source 
 > software that may help them to practice their research.
 > This software should be more than an single application : it should be a set 
 > of libraries, tools and documented guidelines to help other developers to 
 > contribute to this project or to use a part of it for their own (considering 
 > they should respect the terms of the licence ;-)
 > 
 > Today the project provides : 
 > - the gedcomparser library, usefull to parse GEDCOM files
 > - the gedcomviewer application, usefull to visualize and navigate through 
 > GEDCOM files
 > 
 > The gedcomparser library exists and you can download the latest distribution 
 > at http://cpcp.free.fr/devel/gedcomparser/libgedcomparser.0.1.tar.gz
 > 
 > The gedcomviewer application does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.
 > 
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > The compilation of the gedcomparser library should run successfully on a 
 > GNU/Linux system. During the build process, the \"configure\" script may 
 > give you detailed information about its dependencies.
 > The compilation of the gedcomviewer library relies on gtk--, gnome-- 
 > libraries, the bakery framework and its library, and all their dependencies.
 > 
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > The 2 main constraints about this project are the following : 
 > - any of its components should be free and open-source
 > - tools used to develop this project should be free, in order to give to any 
 > developer the ability to join the project (for instance I use today the 
 > Personal Edition of Objecteering - distributed freely by SOFTEAM, 
 > www.objecteering.com - to build my UML models).

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