[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to submit my liblouis code
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Christian Egli'" <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:31:50 -0700
Hello Sreeja. I am catching up on mail and just read your note. There is a
problem. We are planning to change liblouis license from LGPL3 to LGPL2. The
reason is that some provisions of LGPL3 appear to threaten ability of companies
to protect various patents. So large corporations will not be able to use
liblouis unless we stay with LGPL2. We are intending to do that. So can you
please ask the sponsoring organization if they are willing to copyright their
contributions to the tables undr LGPL2 instead of LGPL3? If they are not, I am
afraid we cannot include them in liblouis. We are all very sorry, but whoever
wrote LGPL3 has (in my personal opinion anyhow) defeated a major purpose of
using LGPL instead of GPL.
Thank you very much.
John Gardner
From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sreeja pam
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:48 AM
To: Christian Egli
Cc: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Dipendra Manocha
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to submit my liblouis code
Hello Christian,
Thank you so much for your effort to take this forward.
I was trying to add authors in Github. I could find authors table when I
clicked on fork in the link you provided. I tried editing and added few authors
name, but I was not able to commit changes. what is the way of doing? Do i have
to write any code for this?
Secondly for the copyright information, These table are produced under the
project of National Institute for Visually Handicapped, 116, Rajpur Road,
Dehradun, Uttrakhand, India. This is an agency under government of India.
However we would want to keep this under open source inline with liblouis
copyright. I am giving a copyright note below. Please suggest if any changes
are required.
Copyright National Institute for Visually Handicapped, 116, Rajpur Road,
Dehradun, Uttrakhand, India.
This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the Lesser or Library GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your
option) any
later version.
This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
Library GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the Library GNU General Public
License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write
to
the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
Thanks
sreeja
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi sreeja
On 05/06/2014 10:24 PM, sreeja pam wrote:
Hello Mr. John and Mr.Joseph,
Thanks for your replies. I am attaching the liblouis tables of all
Indian Languages as one zip file.
Thank you very much for these tables. I added them in a pull request on github
and added some comments as to what I'd like to see before these tables can go
in (see https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/pull/3). Amongst other stuff we
need:
- Integration in the Makefile.am (I can take care of that)
- proper copyright statements and license headers
- update of the AUTHORS file with all the authors
- when changing existing tables then retain the exiting copyright notices and
license headers (unless your table is a complete rewrite.
Can you please take care of these things. Ideally you'd create a fork on
github, do the changes there and when everybody is happy we can simply pull and
your changes go in.
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
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