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task #10620: Submission of JBackpack

Submitter:  Ronny Standtke <ronnystandtke>
Submitted:  Sun 19 Sep 2010 07:26:04 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sun 19 Sep 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Wed 29 Sep 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexfernandez Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 03 Oct 2010 08:23:34 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi again, Ronny,

I am surprised by the speed at which you have solved all the issues. Even more since you are an employee of imedias, and you are submitting tarballs on Sundays! :D

Nothing remains but to wish you good luck with your project, and lots of fun!

Alex.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sun 03 Oct 2010 03:54:44 PM UTC, comment #2: 


> I am reviewing your submission on behalf of Savannah

Thank you very much.

> sorry for the delay.

No problem.

> There is no README file in the top level.

Fixed.

> The recommended way of dealing with this situation is adding a
> line to a README file which lists for every binary file the
> name, author and license.

(Hopefully) fixed.

> The copyright holder is listed as "imedias"; however, I can't
> find in the documentation who they may be. There is a link to
> http://www.imedias.ch  which seems to be German page for an
> Institute, but I cannot read German. Now, it is OK for groups
> or companies to hold copyright, but it is convenient to have
> an easy way to contact them. In particular, some easy way to
> link the submitter with the institution would make our life
> easier.

imedias is a section of an institute of the University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland and I am an employee of imedias.

> it would be a good opportunity to mention GNU's page
> explaining the difference.

Done by adding a link to the German translation.

> In the libs/ directory there is a library called jemmy.jar,
> and I cannot find it amongst the dependencies listed. I am not
> even sure that it contains source code.

This is not a runtime dependency but only a testing dependency. Jemmy (see https://jemmy.dev.java.net) is licensed under the CDDL (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php).

> There is also libs/javaws.jar,

This is the Java Web Start library (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/javawebstart-136408.html).

> which comes with a restrictive license. I'm not sure it can be
> distributed under the GPL at all.

This library is also part of the OpenJDK, which is free software, so I assumed it was OK to include it in the project for convenience. But I have now removed it from the project and replaced it with a link to the library of the respective Java Runtime on the local machine.

> Could you upload an updated tarball

I have put the updated tarball on our own server this time:
http://www.imedias.ch/dateien/jbackpack_0.9-1.tar.gz

Thanks!

Ronny Standtke <ronnystandtke>
Fri 01 Oct 2010 10:02:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Ronny,

I am reviewing your submission on behalf of Savannah, sorry for the delay. Now there are a few issues with your submission:

  • There is no README file in the top level. This is not only a convenience, but may be of help with the next items.
  • There are a lot of binary files distributed with the package, and they don't carry any copyright, author or license information. (It's not only code which needs to have the license applied to it.) The recommended way of dealing with this situation is adding a line to a README file which lists for every binary file the name, author and license.
  • Likewise with many XML and HTML files like build.xml or nbproject/private/profiler/configurations.xml or mac_os_x_installation.html: as a rule of thumb, anything over 10 lines which is not completely functional is copyrightable and should carry license information. You can either add the license header as an XML comment, or (if that's too bothersome) add them to the list of copyrighted files in the README.
  • The copyright holder is listed as "imedias"; however, I can't find in the documentation who they may be. There is a link to http://www.imedias.ch which seems to be German page for an Institute, but I cannot read German. Now, it is OK for groups or companies to hold copyright, but it is convenient to have an easy way to contact them. In particular, some easy way to link the submitter with the institution would make our life easier.
  • In that site there are a few references to Open Source, which as you should know is not the preferred term for the GNU project; I see that Free Software is mentioned as well so it should be alright, but it would be a good opportunity to mention GNU's page explaining the difference. There is even a German translation.
  • In the libs/ directory there is a library called jemmy.jar, and I cannot find it amongst the dependencies listed. I am not even sure that it contains source code.
  • There is also libs/javaws.jar, which comes with a restrictive license. I'm not sure it can be distributed under the GPL at all.


Could you upload an updated tarball that solves these issues, so we can continue with the review process? Thanks!

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sun 19 Sep 2010 07:26:04 PM UTC, original submission:  

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  • Name: JBackpack
  • System Name:  jbackpack
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later





Description:

JBackpack is a personal backup program. It features incremental backups, network transparency and encryption.


Other Software Required:

openjdk-6-jre
GNU Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
http://openjdk.java.net/

rdiff-backup
GPL-2+
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/

sshfs
GPL-2+
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

expect
public domain
http://www.nist.gov/mel/msid/expect.cfm

encfs
GNU General Public License with extra permission to link with OpenSSL
http://www.arg0.net/encfs

rsync
GPL-3
http://www.samba.org/rsync/

smbfs
GPL
http://linux-cifs.samba.org/

Apache Derby
Apache License, Version 2.0
http://db.apache.org/derby/index.html

javahelp2
GPL-2+
https://javahelp.dev.java.net/


Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/jbackpack_201009171549.tar.gz


Ronny Standtke <ronnystandtke>

 

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