Re: @author tags in source files (Was re:cvs commit....)

2004-01-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> Clearly, my English is worse than I thought. I thought I said that > credits, after removeing them from the code, go on our website along > with a description what a contributor has done for the project. A > concentrated hall of fame will allow much better visibility of the > contributions to th

Re: @author tags in source files (Was re:cvs commit....)

2004-01-20 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> > Dirk-Willem, does Apache have any position on @author > > tags or other author attributions in source files? The board does not have any specific concerns at this time. But from a community standpoint; please consider this carefully; there are a lot of people who are crucial to this communit

Re: Licence in build.*

2003-07-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Glen Mazza wrote: > Oh, good--we're in agreement here. (Usually not good for one to argue > too much with the President, non-profit or not ;) You are safer off ignoring that silly hat of mine altogether most of the time - and consider me just one of your peers (though perha

Re: Licence in build.*

2003-07-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Glen Mazza wrote: > clarified to be "any file checked into CVS for a > project." Well - at the very least it is more each and every 'granule' which the committer community (i.e the developers) would consider its work or its creation. So at the same time one has some leeway t

Re: Licence in build.*

2003-07-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Glen Mazza wrote: > their to-do lists and related files--so if this is an > oversight with us--so it is with everyone. Which is no reason not to fix i in fop-dev ASAP. We're an open source project; and the ASF needs every bit of help they can in making sure that we dot our i

Re: Licence in build.*

2003-07-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Please Add ! And thanks for noticing this. Dw On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Peter B. West wrote: > I have just noticed that there is no licence in build.xml, build.bat or > build.sh. I assume this is an oversight, or do we have a dispensation? > -

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Folks, See below the Latex License. http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html It seems to me that clause '8.B" makes this license more restrictive than the ASF license - and we thus should not allow code(fragements) which are under this license in downloads from ASF infrastructure. Or am

Re: XML FOP: Licensing issues with hyphenation pattern files

2003-03-17 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> > Before we start here's a little background on the hyphenation stuff: > > Our hyphenation file are XML files that are derived from TeX hyphenation Under what license where the original TeX files ? > > 2. If the former (of [1]) is true, we need a grant from the copyright > > holder of the orig

Re: Licence issues in hyphenation patterns

2003-02-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Peter B. West wrote: > As long as we are still able to recover complete historical binary > distributions. If a problem arises over a past distribution, we are far > better off if we can refer to the actual distribution, even if that is > no longer available for general dist

RE: Long licence

2003-02-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > I'd like to find out what lawyer thought a long license is needed with every > file. Because I question that finding. Question the board@ (again) for a black/white answer - or work with licensing@ for a more interactive reply. But Bear in mind that

Re: Long licence

2003-02-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > software developers. :-) It would be so cool, if IDEs would have the > ability to hide a licence at the beginning of a file. I;ve seen some clever pragma's/markers which let emacs do this. DW --

Re: Licence issues in hyphenation patterns

2003-02-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, J.Pietschmann wrote: > > I am donating the hyphenation file to the ASF, and although it would be > > nice to keep the copyright, I think that would hamper future enhancements, > > or not? > As long as you don't choose to revoke the license for all > future and past versions

Re: Positive responses from XML PMC on rotation scheme for projectrepresentatives

2003-02-19 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I've got positive responses from the XML PMC on Keiron's idea of a > rotating scheme for project representatives. There will be discussions > on [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the near future to adjust the XML charter > to today's requirements. What needs to b

Re: source for hz algorithm

2003-01-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Victor Mote wrote: > I have been looking for some time for a source for the HZ (Hermann Zapf) > algorithm which (as I understand) optimizes line breaks for multiple lines, > looking for rivers, too many lines in a row ending in hyphens, etc. I think > I first saw it referenc

Re: xml.apache.org refactoring #1

2003-01-16 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ted Leung wrote: > We ask each subproject to nominate 1 (or 2) people from that project to > be a part of the XML PMC. From my experience, I think that it will be > better to have 2 people rather than one in order to share workload, etc. Another task we need nominees for (

Re: storing metadata

2002-10-22 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > XMP i think they call it. I would like to extend FOP to allow storing of > this metadata within the produced PDF. I'd love to see this ! See: http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/main.html for more details. But this is really just RDF. http:

Re: orientation

2001-10-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Ok - found it. For some reason it seems to come from an other account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - let me make sure it accepts both. Dw. On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Brian T. Wolf wrote: > I am trying to utilize the code in PCLRenderer that will send the landscape escape >sequence. Unfortunately I cannot se