[Savannah-hackers] submission of gin (GPL Insert) - savannah.nongnu.org

[alexs]

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Alex Sisson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: gin (GPL Insert)
System name: gin
Type: non-GNU

Description:
A command line utility to insert the \'gnu copyright permission statement\' as 
a comment at the start of the specified files.

It supports various options for the statement, allowing for a project name, 
normal GPL or lesser/library GPL

It currently has crude template support, to allow users to include various 
custom parts to the statement such as their name, date, cvs tags and so on. I 
intend to add \'placeholder\' support to the template, allowing users to do 
things such as $FILE or $DATE to insert the filename of the current file, or 
the current date.

It supports the commenting style of a variety of languages.

It is currently hosted on sourceforge:
http://gcpi.sourceforge.net

Other Software Required:


Other Comments:
It was originally titled gcpi - \'Gnu Copyright Permission Inserter\', but this 
wasn\'t very catchy, and I came up with gin - \'Gnu Insert\'.
Then I thought it would be better hosted on savannah because of the obvious gnu 
connection.
However, this goes against gnu policy for non-gnu programs, so, on a previous 
submission effort Jaime E. Villate recommended \'GPL Insert\'.

Speaking of my previous submission effort, the approval was allocated to 
Mathieu Roy. However, I never received emails from him (I only recently read 
his emails on the savannah web-based email archive).
As such, I didn\'t quite know what was going on. If I had, I wouldve 
resubmitted earlier.

It was possible that my email provider was the problem (a free shell account 
called cyberspace.org). I have now changed my savannah email address, so 
hopefully this will now be ok.

The mail web archive also showed that Mathieu asked me if it was mature enough, 
for you to give a link to it for submissions that have no copyright comment. 
(see http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2003-01/msg00536.html). 
In answer to that question. Yes it is mature enough for that, but no, it doesnt 
not support mBSD. I would look into this.

I have not submitted for gnu project assessment, because I think there are 
various gnu standards that it fails to meet. However, I would like to submit it 
for the gnu project at a later date.