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Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] hosting Zipper on GAP
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Sebastian Reitenbach |
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Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] hosting Zipper on GAP |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:29:50 +0100 |
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On Thursday, January 19, 2012 18:16 CET, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sounds like a reasonable idea, let me play with it a bit. It put it in
> GPL V2 or later. This allows us to put it GPLV3 or later in the future,
> in case it becomes necessary and the rest of GNUstep gets relicensed.
Here are the patches I have in the OpenBSD ports tree:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/gnustep/zipper/patches/
Or if you have OpenBSD around, then you probably already have them around ;)
Sebastian
>
> Riccardo
>
> On 01/19/2012 08:51 AM, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while asking Dirk Olmes about the state of Zipper, and what plans he had, I
> > remembered having approached him with regard to Zipper about a year ago,
> > because of some little bugs, where I now have the patches in the OpenBSD
> > ports tree. That time he answered to look into it, but it seems he never
> > got around to do so. Knowing that, I politely offered him to host zipper on
> > GAP.
> >
> > It took him a while to answer, and to think about it. He said its
> > unfurtunate, and he has no idea whether he will work on it again.
> > On the other side he was really happy with the offer to give it a new home
> > on GAP.
> >
> > Its a useful application, integrates nicely in GWorkspace, therefore it
> > would be a shame to leave it bitrotting.
> >
> > I'd take care of it, creating a new page on GAP, importing it into CVS, and
> > all this stuff needed.
> >
> > The only concern I have is with the License, it doesn't really have one.
> > I'll ask him whether we could license it as "GPLv2 or newer".
> > I'll approach him with this topic. I hope/guess he will be fine with that.
> >
> > Where should it be imported into CVS? user-apps, system-apps?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Sebastian
> >
>
>