[Savannah-register-public] [task #4161] Submission of Free Entity Relationship and Reverse Eng

[Jose E. Marchesi]

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                 Summary: Submission of Free Entity Relationship and Reverse
Eng
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: jemarch
            Submitted on: Wed 05/18/2005 at 08:38
         Should Start On: Wed 05/18/2005 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sat 05/28/2005 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:


Site Admin. Approval/Edition URL:
 <https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7633>


###### ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DETAILS ######

System Group Name:
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  ferret


Full Name:
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  Free Entity Relationship and Reverse Eng
  

Type:
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  Official GNU software


License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later


Other License: 
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Description:
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  Ferret is the Free Entity Relationship and Reverse Engineering Tool. It is
a Data Modeler based on the Entity\Relationship paradigm. It mainly clones
(and improve) the functionality of Computer Associates's ERwin program.

Ferret provides a visual editor for construct both entity\relationship
diagrams and relational schemes. There is support for reverse engineering on
ER-model<->Relational-scheme.

The preliminary webpage is at
http://es.gnu.org/~jemarch/ferret/project/what.html

You can checkout the sources from:

     :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gerwin

module `gerwin-devel'  (please see below for an explanation of why it is  a
nongnu package and the `gerwin' issue).


Other Software Required:
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  Ferret link with the tcl and tk libraries in order to build the GUI and
provide support for extensibility.

It also link with the expat library in order to parse XML.


Other Comments:
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  Ferret was formerly known as GerWin and hosted on
http//www.nongnu.org/gerwin/project/what.html. I received an email from
Computer Associates (owner of the privative suite ERwin) claiming that they
could sue me due to trademark violation (Gerwin = G+ERwin). I discussed the
issue with both RMS and Eben, and the conclusion was to 1) to change the name
from GerWin to another one (Ferret) and 2) to make Ferret a GNU package.

So Ferret was already dubbed as a GNU package by RMS.

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