Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The OpenCookBook - savannah.gnu.org

[David Grant]

Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
>  
Thanks.

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:21:03AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
>  
>
> > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> >
> > David Grant <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: fdl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: The OpenCookBook
> > System name: opencookbook
> >    
>
> Savannah's mission is to host free software projects, and we want the public
> to think of them as free software projects.  A project name that says "open"
> will tend to lead people to think of the project as "open source" instead of
> "free software".
>
> We would be glad if you accept to use "free" instead of "open" in your
> project name.
>  
Sorry.  Ok, let's call it "The FreeCookBook", and the system name will 
be "freecookbook".

>  
>
> > Type: GNU
> >    
>
> Your project is not part of the GNU project, so we cannot accept its current
> type.  We want to maintain the distinction between 'GNU' and 'non-GNU'
> projects. If your project is approved for inclusion into Savannah, we will
> set its type to 'non-GNU'.
>
> If your project is accepted into the GNU project you may change its type.
> You can do this by asking us.
>  
Sorry about that.  I must not have been thinking when I answered the 
type question.

>  
>
> > Description:
> > I am not sure if you guys support this kind of project, but I think it is
> > an interesting and very useful one.  There are some free recipe websites
> > out there but often I find there are just TOO many recipes.  Other
> > websites like allrecipes.com make people pay to see certain recipes.
> >
> > The goal is to create a free open-source cookbook (of food recipes) using
> > an amazing (but simple) latex class called 'cooking' by Axel Reichert.
> > This class has a great way of structuring the recipe layout which you can
> > see in the source code I provided.
> >    
>
> Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software movement, not
> projects of the Open Source movement.
>
> We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software that is
> not dependent on proprietary software.
>
> While Open Source as defined by its founders means something pretty close to
> Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.  For more information, see
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.
>
>  
Understood.  I'm moderately aware of the OSS and Free Software movement 
and their philosophies.

> > The cookbook would contain many recipes.  Initially, the cookbook would
> > contain almost any recipe.  Recipes would be decided upon by the developers
> > whether or not to include them.  Identical recipes would be merged so as to
> > find the ultimate recipe.  For example, unless two recipes for spaghetti
> > sauce differ significantly, the two recipes will be combined, taking the
> > best of each to make the best recipe.  This cookbook will start off as
> > being the best of the best, only the best recipes out there.  Eventually
> > as the project expands I would like to have several cookbooks branch off
> > into a desert-only cookbook, a vegetarian-only cookbook, a main course-only
> > cookbook, and so on.  This is easily achieved by using \inlude statements,
> > to include recipes of certain types.  Using latex as the processing system
> > gives us a lot of flexibility, especially with regards to changing the
> > output format of the recipes later.
> >
> > The source code of my cookbook is here.
> > http://www.davidgrant.ca:81/myCookbook.tar.gz   I have many more that I
> >    
>
> In order to release your project properly and unambiguously under the FDL,
> please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy statements after the
> title page of each work.
>  
Yes, I was planning to add this so that it comes up on the 2nd page of 
each document when compiled to dvi, ps, or pdf.  Additionally I was 
going to place a GPL header on each .tex source file (unless this is not 
strictly necessary, but I'm pretty sure it is as many other free 
projects do this).

> In addition, if you haven't already, please copy a copy of the plain text
> version of the FDL, available from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt, into
> a file named "COPYING".
>  
Right, I'll do that.

> Additional instructions are available from
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.
>
>  
>
> > want to add but I need a place on the web to store them, and which allows
> > others to share and add easily through CVS, which usually works pretty
> > good for Latex, but will work better for recipes, where less information
> > is stored per line, than with usual Latex documents.
> >
> > I have one person on the internet who also uses the latex cooking class and
> > is willing to help contribute some recipes to get us started.
> >
> > Other Software Required:
> > latex (tetex for linux or miktex for windows, for example)
> > cooking package for latex
> >    
>
> "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.
>
> For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
>  
Sorry, I should have said GNU/Linux, my bad.  I will have to get into 
the habit of doing that now.

>  
>
> > Other Comments:
> > If you reject, can you please communicate to me if there is any way I can
> > change it in order to make it acceptable or explain your reasons.
> >    
>
> If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
> us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
> will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.
>
>  
I will provide you with an updated tarball URL once I have read the 
documentation on how to comply with the license fully and have made ALL 
the changes.

Thanks,

David

> Regards,
>
>  


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