Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Patent WIKI site - savannah.nongnu.org

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hi,

As we have not had a response from you, we have deleted your project
from the pending queue.  If you would still like to have your project
hosted at Savannah, please re-submit it for evaluation.

Regards,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:59:34PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:25:59PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > Carsten Svaneborg <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: Patent WIKI site
> > System name: ziki
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > http://gauss.bacon.su.se is a website currently presenting roughly 23K 
> > software patents, that has been granted by the European Patent Office (EPO).
> > 
> > The purpose of the site is to present software patents in a easy readable
> > way, such that politicians, journalists, SME, and OSS developers can see
> > which patents have actually been granted. The purpose of the site is to
> > raise awareness about software patent matters, which in turn allows people
> > better to influence the political processes, that are currently trying to
> > legalise the software patents that EPO has granted.
> > 
> > Some of the features of the site is links in patent documents to
> > "related" patents, like in a WIKI, and WIKI annotation of patents.
> > Furthermore, most of the patents are in the software field, and
> > all have been granted by the EPO.
> > 
> > Existing patent services such as ep.espacenet.com are targeted for patent
> > professionals, not software developers. Hence, it's difficult to find
> > software specific patents, and especially those that has been granted,
> > and it takes some knowledge to interprete the results.
> > My scripts are a perl interface to ep.espacenet.com, that can
> > automate searches, and vetting of patents into granted or applications.
> > 
> > The project consists of the set of scripts (perl & bash) that
> > generate and maintain the website, as well as the set of scripts
> > that I have used to generate the database. I also have a satelite
> > project of modifying spamassassins Baysian classifier to distinguish
> > between software and non-software patents. The plan is to vet all
> > patents granted, and thus make a complete and uptoday
> > database over granted software patents. I'm currently waiting for 
> > reply from EPO for permission to distribute the patent database
> > itself.
> > 
> > I have many ideas about how to improve the scripts, the site
> > and the database. However, I don't have the time for realising
> > those ideas. I have GPL'ed the scripts, such that people can
> > improve them, and asked for assistance, and a number of people
> > are interested in contributing, as a result we need infrastructure
> > for hosting the project.
> > 
> > Note there is nothing in the code or site that is particular for
> > European patents, given a database of US software patents, a similar
> > site could be running within no time.
> > 
> > The relevant source code and database can be downloaded from
> > http://gauss.bacon.su.se/download
> 
> In order to release your project properly and unambiguously 
> under the GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy
> statements at the beginning of every file of source code.
> 
> In addition, if you haven't already, please copy a copy of the plain
> text version of the GPL, available from
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt), into a file named "COPYING".
> 
> Additional instructions are available from
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.
> 
> The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.  To learn
> why a copy of the GPL must be included with every copy of the code,
> for example, go to
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude
> 
> > It runs happily on a linux server with requires bash, perl and apache.
> 
> "Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system that we like to
> refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize the ideals of the Free Software
> movement.
> 
> Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS to GNU/Linux?
> 
> For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
> 
> If you can get the above fixed, and point us to a tarball containing
> the fixes, we can approve your project.
> 
> -- 
> Elfyn McBratney
> 
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