On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Andy Seaborne
<andy.seabo...@epimorphics.com> wrote:
> Context: "Eyeball" is the jena application that is "lint for RDF".  It
> checks RDF graphs for common and easy-to-make mistakes.
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/jena/documentation/tools/eyeball-getting-started.html
>
> While the code in Apache SVN has had the sourcecode headers upgraded, it
> hasn't been generally sorted up into a release able condition.  And of
> course everything is in the Import/ area.
>
>
> As far as I aware, no one has plans to release in the near future.
>
> Eyeball currently is downloadable from SourceForge.  Last release was
> 2010-04.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/files/Eyeball/Eyeball%202.3/
>
> It hasn't been updated in while, so it depends on non-Apache Jena.
>
> Eyeball has various plug-ins so the licensing on auxiliary jars needs to be
> chased down and documented.  The tests don't run from ant (but do in Eclipse
> - bizarre).  I ran out of time tracking licenses on some very old jars where
> the license at the time was not obvious.
> It would be easier to update the jars to newer ones.
>
> I'd like to move from the main area of SVN into (for example), /Scratch, add
> some README/LICENS/NOTICE labelling and wait for the time when someone
> applies care and attention on it.
>
> Should we also delete the jars that are checked in because of the license
> unclarity?  (They'd still be in Imports/ and we can leave notes.

Don't put any jars of unclear license in the main svn area.

Putting it in /Scratch or /sandbox or whatever is fine.

I might make some time to neaten it up for you.


>
> What should go on the website temporarily?  I think we either need to remove
> the page or (better?) put a header on the top of the Eyeball pages to point
> to SF and explain the license.
>
>        Andy

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