Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Journal: The Editor - savannah.nongnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

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Parkanyi Peter wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I've corrected the licence errors: headers and exception, as you said.
| SWT source code is now included.
| But, when I tried to compile the stuff with GCJ(only Journal), it worked
| (not, with ant's javac task, but with some workaround), however when i
| tried to compile SWT too, it failed. And GIJ didn't find the needed
| native libs(lib/*.so). So it isn't working now.
| The build.xml provides compile script for Jikes, but it neither like
| SWT: compile failed.
|
| So you can test the updated tar in:
| http://peepy.uw.hu/journal/files/journal0.1-r1.tar.bz2

I have not tested Journal since I lack time; although, I would
very much like to test it :-). Regarding the SWT issue, please
report your problems to GCJ or Classpath mailing lists. I am
sure people there will be able and glad to help you. Please try to
~ make GCJ the main development and supported platform :-).

I have approved your project for inclusion in Savannah. You should
recieve an automated email shortly with more information.

Thanks,
Alaska Subedi

|
| Yours sincerely,
|
|     Peter Parkanyi
|
| On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Alaska Subedi wrote:
|
|> Hi,
|>
|> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
|>
|> address@hidden writes:
|> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
|> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
|> >
|> >
|> > Párkányi Péter <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
|> > License: gpl
|> > Other License:
|> > Package: Journal: The Editor
|> > System name: journal
|> > Type: non-GNU
|> >
|> > Description:
|> > Journal is a text editor had written in Java using the SWT library,
|> ant, JFace, and bash. It have all the base editor functions
|> (cut,save,copy,etc.).It can use plugins(no API spec. unfortunately),
|> and languages. It builds by an ant script what generates a runner
|> script(had written in bash). There are only one release at the moment,
|> and it's using JFace as i told above. Because JFace needs the Eclipse
|> runtime, it will be replaced by an own stuff soon(in the next release
|> perhaps). The base package contains a configurator plugin, English,
|> Hungarian, and German languages, and some icons. The icons haven't
|> made by me. For more information see icons/icons.txt. You can download
|> the tar compressed by bzip2 from
|> http://peepy.uw.hu/journal/files/journal0.1.tar.bz2 . Every error
|> messages logged in $HOME/.journal.log .That's all, I think.
|> >
|> > Other Software Required:
|> > - SWT(included)
|> > - JFace(included)
|> > - Eclipse runtime(included)
|> > - Ant with all the tasks
|> > - Java virtual machine(GCJ will supported in the future, the Sun
|> version reccomended, but it works with others, too)
|> > - GTK(or something Motif but when Motif, it needs to change the SWT
|> lib.)
|> > - Java compiler(javac and/or jikes)
|> >
|> > Other Comments:
|> >
|>
|>
|> Eclipse, SWT and JFace are released under CPL (I guess they are
|> transitioning to EPL). The license is a free software license, thus
|> acceptable as a dependency. However, it is not compatible with the GNU
|> GPL, and since `journal' is released under the GNU GPL, it cannot use
|> those libraries.
|>
|> You can either try to convince the Eclipse group to switch their
|> license (others are already tring, without much success) or to drop
|> the dependencies. You may also use an exception for their license
|> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs).
|>
|>
|> The package contains some libraries whose source code is not provided.
|> The headers in the source files are also incomplete. For more
|> information on this issue, please see
|> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html. The notices point to GPL
|> v2 only, we only host projects which have GPL v2 or later.
|>
|> Could you also please clarify if it works with any free Java
|> implementation?
|>
|> You must determine whether your project can run on a Free Software Java
|> suite (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for more information).
|>
|> We recommend you to test your project using GCJ and GNU Classpath, and
|> ensure that your Java code runs on this Free Software Java suite.
|>
|> GCJ is the GNU Compiler for Java, part of the GCC (GNU Compiler
|> Collection).  The Classpath project aims to develop a free and portable
|> implementation of the Java API (the classes in the 'java' package).
|>
|> More information is available at http://gcc.gnu.org/ and
|> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/,
|>
|> Please address these issues and provide me the URL of the updated
|> tarball. Do not hesitate to ask question if there is an confusion or
|> you do not understand some of these issues.
|>
|> Thanks,
|>
|> Alaska Subedi
|>
|>

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