[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of gedify GEDCOM 6 XML to GEDCOM 5 converte - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.



address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Perry <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: gedify GEDCOM 6 XML to GEDCOM 5 converte
> System name: gedify
> Type: non-GNU

Can you explain the name? You're free to choose the name you want but
I personally do not get the meaning of "gedify" and I may be not the
only one. :)
 
> Description:
> A program to convert a GEDCOM 6.0 XML genealogy file
> to GEDCOM 5.x. This is essentially meant as an import tool
> to be used together with lifelines 
>   http://sf.net/projects/lifelines
> although I see no reason why it could not be useful to anyone
> interested in GEDCOM 6.0 XML but wishing to import the data
> to an existing genealogy program.

Is gedcom, genealogy tool I guess, a free software? Can gedcom files
be generated by a free software?
 
> I have written only a tiny autotools shell project, which merely
> loops through its arguments and tries to open each as a filename, to
> establish that I can compile a lib subdir and one gui frontend so
> far (console), with (trivial) C++ source files.

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We would like to look at your source code, even if it is still
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the GPL you should write copyright notices and copying
permission statements at the beginning of every source code
file, as advise in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html


> I plan to use this as my learning ground for using libxml, and for
> at using at least one cross-platform library. My intention is to
> take wxWindows as my first cross-platform GUI.
> 
> I plan to do my main work all on MS-Windows, hopefully using
> mingw/cygwin platform (this is also an educational experience
> for me, as stepping away from MSVisualC++ as my main tool on 
> MS-Windows).
> 
> Caveat: I do not wish to include a snail address in the program
> documentation (because I do not have a good drop address which I am
> willing to expose to junk snail mail). Is this a stumbling block for
> my being allowed to host the project on Savannah ?

I'm not sure to understand your point.

Your email is @hotmail.com. Can't you create one more box for this
purpose?
Or maybe you could try yahoo services that features an anti-spam tool,
as far I know.  

There's no real obligation to include an email address in the
documentation but that's a lot better if people can contact you. 

Anyway, we need a real address where we can contact you, but you can
hide it from others (so only sv-hackers will know it), see in your
account configuration on savannah.

> Other Comments:
> I plan to load the project on Savannah as GPL. I plan to retain the copyright 
> myself, so that I may change the terms under which I release later versions 
> (eg, adding an X11 option). I understand that you do not allow changing 
> licenses on Savannah projects, so I believe that I could simply take future 
> development elsewhere if I decided to change the license (leaving the 
> existing project with GPL on Savannah for as long as you like, of course). I 
> suppose this will be an acceptable plan to you ?

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Regards,


-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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