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task #10927: Submission of Bo-Keep

Submitter:  Mark Jenkins <markjenkins>
Submitted:  Thu 10 Feb 2011 07:17:07 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Thu 10 Feb 2011 06:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sun 20 Feb 2011 06:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexfernandez Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 20 Feb 2011 05:23:10 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Mark,

Everything seems to be fine. I am approving your submission.

As to the problem that you state: "If I understand correctly, in order to distribute Bo-Keep (GNU GPL v3 or at your option any later) with GnuCash, one must upgrade all of the files that say [...]".
My opinion is that you do not need to patch GnuCash or upgrade any files: you can just distribute both counting on the compatibility between GPLv{2,3} and GPL3+. Distributions do this kind of thing every day. Only if GnuCash was GPLv2 and Bo-Keep was GPLv3 would you have to consider compatibility. And even in this case, it is not clear that Bo-Keep is a derivative work of GnuCash: using public interfaces is not the same as linking. As GnuCash is an optional dependency there seems to be little trouble.

Welcome, and have fun!



I've approved your project--welcome on board! :-)

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Happy hacking!

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Thu 10 Feb 2011 07:17:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: Bo-Keep
  • System Name:  bokeep
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v3 or later





Description:

Bo-Keep helps you keep your books so you don't get lost

Bo-Keep allows you to create custom data entry interfaces for accounting software, speeding up data entry and reducing errors.

The system uses front-end plugins for data entry interfaces, and back-end plugins to connect with various accounting programs.
http://bokeep.org/


Other Software Required:

Python
PSF LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON
http://docs.python.org/license.html#terms-and-conditions-for-accessing-or-otherwise-using-python
http://python.org

PyGtk
GNU Library General Public License version 2
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.html
http://pygtk.org

ZODB
Zope Public License
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ZODB3/3.10.1#license
http://www.zope.org/Resources/License/
http://zodb.org/

Optional dependency
(not required, but makes Bo-Keep a lot more useful)
GnuCash
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html
Quoting from
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/tags/2.4.2/LICENSE
"""
Almost all of the source files are licensed under the GNU GPL, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version".  Some of the source files are licensed under "Version 2 and/or Version 3" of the GNU GPL specifically.
"""
http://gnucash.org


Other Comments:

If I understand correctly, in order to distribute Bo-Keep (GNU GPL v3 or at your option any later) with GnuCash, one must upgrade all of the files that say

  • version 2 and any later version

or

  • allow an upgrade to version 3 specifically.


It will have to be verified that there are no version 2 only files.

We're prepared to make a patch to GnuCash that does this for the convenience of anyone wishing to distribute GnuCash and BoKeep together. We don't expect such a patch to be accepted upstream (they've probably already consider it), but perhaps they'll commit it to a branch.


Tarball URL:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/ParITBoKeep/bokeep-1.0.1.tar.gz


Mark Jenkins <markjenkins>

 

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