-------- On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:31:11 +0800 (PHT), Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > i have added UIDL and PostgreSQL authentication to the code, and i'm > working on Oracle authentication (via OCI8 -- not out of altruism, but > because it would be cool and kick *ss for Mozcom). i wanna fork this > code. I've already written the maintainer, but in case of no answer or a > "no, i don't like your code" what's the proper way of doing a fork? > I suggest you try finding a mailing list devoted to it (if there's one) and post a message there. If you can't find one specific to the software, try a more general one -- either one devoted to mail software or gnu software. If its an "official" gnu project, you can try contacting gnu.org/fsf.org itself -- maybe they have info on who's maintaining the project. In any case, if you can't contact the maintainer or just want to fork it, just put the forked version somewhere in a easily accessible place and post a message to the relevant mailing lists. If you plan to actively maintain the software, you can try putting it in one of those web-based open source project maintainance sites -- try either Sourceforge or (since it has an "official" gnu designation) gnu's 'free software' project site -- to make it easy for others to contribute (bug reports and fixes) as well. If it's a forked version and the maintainer just doesn't want to put in your changes and you plan to actively develop the code, I'd also suggest renaming it to something else so that people don't get confused (plus the maintainer gets real mad if you don't ;^)) Lastly, make sure that your mods don't conflict with the GPL redistribution terms (the connection to Oracle's Call Interface raises a red flag -- you should check and make there's no licensing conflict there -- you can ask the people at gnu.org/fsf.org) before planning to distribute it... That's all I can think of right now... Regards, Butch Landingin [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
