Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of CASHeW-s - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

> Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: CASHeW-s
> System name: cashew-s
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> The purpose of this project is to facilitate the composition of semantic web 
> services.  It consists of two parts:
> 
> * a process editor, which allows the individual services to be visually 
> composed.  The primary output target will be OWL-s, with possible extensions 
> in the form of high-level functions. as seen in functional languages.
> 
> * a workflow engine, that will convert its input (primarily OWL-s) into a 
> process algebraic form, and then execute it.  The individual service calls 
> are bound to the actions in the algebra.
> 
> The former will be implemented as a plug-in for the Eclipse development 
> environment using Java.  The latter will be written in the functional 
> langauge, Haskell.
> 
> At present, no source code is available, as the development of the languages 
> used is still in progress.
> 
> A further synopsis of the project is at:
> 
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~barry/CASheW-s/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> For the Haskell side:
>    -- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) with generics extensions (currently 
> only in CVS)
>    -- Other supporting Haskell libraries such as HaXML and Haifa 
> (https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/haifa/)
> 
> For the Java side:
>     -- The Eclipse development environment.  This has been successfully 
> compiled natively using gcj, part of the GCC, and uses SWT (a native toolkit) 
> as opposed to Swing.
> 
> 
> Other Comments:
> Is there any advice the Savannah team can give as to the legal
> aspects of licensing an Eclipse plug-in under the GPL?  Eclipse
> itself is under the Eclipse Public License, IIRC.

Yes, if you are the copyright holder of all the GNU GPL-covered code,
you can add an exception to permit linking with Eclipse - good to know
Eclipse does not have proprietary dependencies anymore, btw :)

Please have a look at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF
and then:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCGPLIncompatibleLibs

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain