[jsword-devel] GPL and JSword

[Joe Walker]

Just a quicky - I need to go to bed.
We should finish the discussion about licenses before we change anything. I 
realize that I owe you a reply to your last mail on that subject so I'll 
have a think tomorrow.

Joe.

On 5/7/05, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Bet that got your attention!
> 
> Nothing radical, nothing to start a long thread;)
> 
> I would like to suggest that we change where we put the license notice
> in the source.
> 
> Right now the GPL license notice is in the type's javadoc. I would like
> to recommend that we move it to be a file comment, preceding the package
> declaration. I don't know that this is a standard, but it is fairly
> typical of java code. Also, there is direct support for it in Eclipse
> (more on that below) and CheckStyle can be made to check that it is at
> the top and is unchanged.
> 
> The difference is that it would not show up in the javadoc for each
> class. I do recommend that we add it to each package's javadoc
> (package.html)
> 
> The following settings in eclipse (using 3.1M6 for the example) will
> enable a package comment:
> Window->Preferences->Java->Code Style->Code Templates->Comments->Files
> to set the package comment.
> Window->Preferences->Java->Code Style->Code Templates->Code->New Java
> Files to put it at the top of the file.
> Window->Preferences->Java->Code Style->Code Templates->Comments->Types
> to remove it from the class .
> 
> For the first I recommend: (There is no change to the text other than
> formatting.)
> /**
> * Distribution License:
> * JSword is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
> * the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 as published by
> * the Free Software Foundation. This program 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 GNU General Public License for more details.
> *
> * The License is available on the internet at:
> * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> * or by writing to:
> * Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> * 59 Temple Place - Suite 330
> * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
> *
> * Copyright: ${year}
> * The copyright to this program is held by it's authors.
> *
> * ID: $$ID$$
> */
> 
> For the second I recommend: (filecomment is the name of the variable set
> above)
> ${filecomment}
> ${package_declaration}
> 
> ${typecomment}
> ${type_declaration}
> 
> For the third I recommend: (replace my author string with yours)
> /**
> *
> * @see gnu.gpl.License for license details.
> * The copyright to this program is held by it's authors.
> * @author DM Smith [ dmsmith555 at yahoo dot com]
> */
> I would like to figure out how to modify ${user} or create my own
> template variable, ${author}, to use with @author
> 
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