[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: How to submit my liblouis code
- From: sreeja pam <sreeja.param@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:32:14 -0700
Hello Mr.John,
Thank you so much for your information. I contacted my organization
regarding this issue, and they are ready to contribute these tables under
LGPL2 copyright licence.
thanks
sreeja
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM, John Gardner <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
>
> -----
> Tag der offenen Tuer: Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein: 28. Juni 2014 von 9
> bis 16 Uhr. Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter
> http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer
>
>
>
Other related posts:
