[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of TPL: TPL Prints Languages

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Drew Crampsie <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
Other License: GNU FDL will be apllied to all the documentation. specialf 
thatnks to GNU for coming up with a license that protects the author\'s works, 
but still allows modifications and re-distribution. kudo\'s!


Package: TPL: TPL Prints Languages
System name: tpl
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
The project is aspecification and various implementations of a templating 
system for using texttemplates (a la html, xml, sql, ..) from a programming 
language. The author(myself ;) beleives the project is unique, in that it takes 
a minimal approachto templates, allowing the prorammer to focus on the logic 
and structure of theprogram, leaving the display to the templates.The idea is 
that using the templates from the program is simply a matter ofcreating a data 
structure, and assinging that structure to the template. thereis no logic or 
control structures in the template system, which is an importantpart of the 
design.It is based on ideas developed while working on web front-ends to 
databases,but has concepts applicable to much more. It was developed out 
ofdissatisfaction(sp?) with any current template language. I beleive that The 
code hosted on savannah is free software, under the LGPL license.The GPL isnot 
used because the author beleives that wider use of this code could onlyadvance 
the cause of free software. If requested a GPL license could beapplied, as i 
intend to maintain copyright on the code.If the GNU project were to ever become 
interested in the code, it would beavailable under thier terms :)A 
semi-complete implementation exists,and can be seen at 
http://rift.com/~drewc/TPL.pm

Other Software Required:
as previously discussed, there will be fully free implementations. there may 
also be implementation in non-free languages. effort will be made to have them 
run in free versions of those languages.

Other Comments:
the re-request seems to have lost some of the data in the original. The GNU FDL 
will be used for all documentation. The author feels that this license covers 
the integrity of the work, while leaving it free and open.

I have decided to put off the GNU application untill i re-implement in C as a 
library.