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task #10257: Submission of AFP Power Tools

Submitter:  Roland Rodrigus <rrodrigus>
Submitted:  Wed 10 Mar 2010 02:15:29 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Wed 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sat 20 Mar 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexfernandez Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 25 Mar 2010 02:06:27 AM UTC, comment #6: 



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March 24th 2010 in GNU Savannah task #10252: "Submission of AFP Power
Tools"

Thanks Alex and Karl.

I have approved this project. You will receive an auto-generated
email containing detailed information about the approval.

Item status changes:

Status -> Done
Open/Closed -> Closed

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Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc>
Wed 24 Mar 2010 07:25:42 AM UTC, comment #5: 

I see no obstacle for approval now.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Wed 24 Mar 2010 02:11:44 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Ok I've included that in a readme.txt as requested.
Thanks.

Roland Rodrigus <rrodrigus>
Wed 24 Mar 2010 12:23:43 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi Roland -- it's certainly questionable whether copyright can be claimed in such a case, but there's no harm in making the situation clear.  so i suggest simply putting a statement in the README saying "the yaml files are in the public domain.  originally written by Roland Rodrigus in 2010."  or whatever information is actually correct :).

Thanks for being responsive on these issues, despite everything.

Best,
Karl

Karl Berry <karl>
Site Administrator
Wed 24 Mar 2010 12:09:29 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Alex,
Thanks a lot.
I'm not very intested in all these legal stuff, but I understand it's important.
About the yaml "grammar": it's a bit like if someone makes a BNF grammar of some language or protocol that has been published. I don't think someone can claim ownership (and license) on that, but perhaps I'm very naive.
Looking forward to reading from you.

Roland Rodrigus <rrodrigus>
Tue 23 Mar 2010 11:11:09 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Roland,

I am reviewing your submission; as an aspiring administrator others will be actually approving your project, so please bear with me if I make any mistakes in my review.

Your project looks OK. However, you say: "There's no copyright licence in the "grammar" files, as they are merely YAML translations of the AFP specifications, which can be found here: http://www.afpcinc.org/". Apparently these files contain purely functional info, but I would like to check with other administrators if this is OK. Mario?

Thanks and good luck!

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Wed 10 Mar 2010 02:15:29 AM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: AFP Power Tools
  • System Name:  afppowertools
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v3 or later





Description:

A library and utilities for parsing AFP (Advanced Function Presentation), a format used for high-volume printing.

The name comes as a parallel to Unix tools like grep, cut, awk... which parse a line, and then apply some user-defined actions on that line. In AFP, the record is not a line, but a "Structured Field". With afppowertools, the user has to register pairs of callbacks (condition + action), which will be called after processing each Structured Field. Some callbacks are already provided in the library, together with scripts that use them.

The library relies on a YAML translation of the AFP specification.
The first implementation provided is in Perl.


Other Software Required:

Perl
Perl's YAML module.


Other Comments:

There's no copyright licence in the "grammar" files, as they are merely YAML translations of the AFP specifications, which can be found here:
http://www.afpcinc.org/


Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/afppowertools.tgz


Roland Rodrigus <rrodrigus>

 

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file #20008:  afppowertools.tgz added by rrodrigus (19KiB - application/x-compressed-tar)

 

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    2010-03-28 marioxcc StatusIn Progress Done
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    2010-03-24 rrodrigus Attached File- Added afppowertools.tgz, #20008
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