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task #4770: Submission of guile-reader

Submitter:  Ludovic Courtès <civodul>
Submitted:  Wed 12 Oct 2005 11:59:18 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Wed 12 Oct 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sat 22 Oct 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  kickino Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 13 Oct 2005 04:13:56 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Seems like we're done.

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards.

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Thu 13 Oct 2005 12:19:09 PM UTC, comment #4: 

An updated tarball is available:

http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guile-reader-0.1+.tar.gz
SHA1: e672bd93be2b7385fa4582f8ce02a1c701d7a379

Note that the source file `guile.c' (whose purpose is to allow to run the testsuite in a sane environment, i.e. it does not get installed) comes unmodified from Guile itself.  Therefore, it is still under the LGPL.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

Ludovic Courtès <civodul>
Thu 13 Oct 2005 11:42:58 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hello.

We would like to review your (corrected) source code first, upon review, we will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

So please provide us with an updated tarball.
Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Thu 13 Oct 2005 11:30:06 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hello,

I finally got to see your reply (had forgotten to update my account settings to reflect my new email address, `ludovic.courtes@laas.fr'), so thanks.

My intent was actually to release the code under "GNU GPL v2 or later".  Did I specify that I wanted to released it under "v2 only"?  If so, then that is an error.  In fact, I consider that there is no point in releasing Guile modules under the LGPL rather than the GPL.  If `guile-reader' were to become part of Guile, I'd certainly change its license to LGPL (like the rest of Guile), but that's absolutely not a goal for now.

Also, your observation about the source file headers being inconsistent with `COPYING' are right: I copied the wrong license headers in the source files, which I'll obviously have to fix.  I will also need to update the FSF address.

I'm planning to release 0.2 in a couple of weeks or so.  I was hoping to have the project hosted at Savannah by the time I make this release.  Would it be sufficient for you if I published a release that fixes these problems only then?

Thanks,
Ludovic.

Ludovic Courtès <civodul>
Wed 12 Oct 2005 02:53:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

At first, normally the COPYING file should be unchanged.

At second, Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.
Would you agree to license your project under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3,
it will be important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3.
If you don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to GPL v3 would be to ask each
and every copyright holder, and that may be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish.
If you have concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", we'd be happy to address them too.


At third, why do you insert the GNU GPL in the COPYING file but realsing your files under the GNU LGPL? This should be identical.

At fourth, the address of the FSF has changed, and is now:

  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

Please update your license notices.

Updates versions of the GPL, LGPL and GFDL can also be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt

Please update the copy of the license (usually, the 'COPYING' file) in your package as well.

You can find some background and a possible migration script at https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3766

Regards,

Sebastian Wieseler <kickino>
Wed 12 Oct 2005 11:59:18 AM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
The project account will remain inactive until a site admin approve or discard the registration.


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  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=8043>


######### REGISTRATION DETAILS #########

Full Name:
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  guile-reader

System Group Name:
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  guile-reader

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  `guile-reader' is an extension for Guile that aims at providing an extensible reader framework.  The goal is to provide Guile users with a simple mechanism to build new readers, preferably for Scheme-like syntaxes.  One typical use is to instantiate readers with the user's preferred syntax variants.  Because of this, this may be more powerful than, for instance, SRFI-10 and Guile's limited customization capabilities of the built-in reader (namely `read-enable' and `read-hash-extend').

At the same time, `guile-reader' makes its best to not compromise performance.  Therefore, it uses GNU Lightning in order to generate efficient reader code.

Version 0.1 was released in September 2005:

  http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guile-reader-0.1.tar.gz
  SHA1:  d0a6740b4d7390e914199b0cb673355a02dd74d9

Documentation (incomplete) can be read at:

  http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/software/guile/guile-reader.html



Other Software Required:
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  GNU Guile 1.7+
GNU Lightning 1.2



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