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

[Mathieu Roy]

Note:

> >Package: gedify: GEDCOM 6 XML to GEDCOM 5 converter
> 
> (ie, to help clarify that gedify is the name, and the
> rest is the description. Actually the submission form didn't
> tell me whether the package name should be part of the
> package description or not. If not, then just remove the
> gedify from the front of the package description line.)


so you should have 
system name : gedify
name : Gedify : GEDCOM 6 XML...


> They can be generated by lifelines.
>   http://sf.net/projects/lifelines
> [Or I summarize here:] It is a genealogy program that grew up
> on UNIX 10 years ago, and is now open source (X license).
> I am, de facto, the primary developer on it now.
> 
> There are a couple other open source genealogy programs,
> which can probably generate GEDCOM files, eg, gramps (python
> based), which can be found on sourceforge.net.

Ok, fine.

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> >We would like to look at your source code, even if it is still
> >not functional, to help you fix potential legal issues which
> >would be harder to find and to solve after the project gets
> >approved. For example, in order to release your project under
> >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
> 
> In lifelines, there is a copy of the X license at the top of
> every source file. It is a major nuisance to developers,
> and I've stripped out almost all linefeeds to reduce the
> nuisance (so much time wasted pushing page down all the time).
> 
> It just occurred to me this morning that I'm probably not
> even willing to put the GPL at the top of every source file
> (it is terribly long). I notice that gettext does not so; it
> merely has a statement that the file is under GPL, not a copy
> of the license. If I put in the same lines as gettext uses,
> and stripped out intraparagraph linefeeds, would that be
> sufficient ?

Hum, as explained in the links and at the end of the GPL license, you
just have to add something like 

# (c) 2002, Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
# core.sh: this file is part of package_db_view
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#
#  $Id: core.sh,v 1.50 2003/01/06 18:33:17 yeupou Exp $

and a full text copy of the license in the top-directory of your
project.


> >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.
> 
> Those are email addresses. It is easy to create an email
> address. I was speaking of snail address (a paper mail address).
> The FAQ said I should include a paper mail address, but I don't
> have a P.O. Box, for example.

Ok, now I know what means "snail mail".

Don't you have temporary address that you can put? I don't think
people will try to send you junk mail by looking on a software
tarball.

Regards,


-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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