[Pkg-crosswire-devel] JSword and Bible Desktop

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/5/20 DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>:
> Now that we have the C++ SWORD library and apps well underway, can we see
> about getting Bible Desktop and JSword into Ubuntu/Debian? I had posted
> earlier what the parts are. Even after watching this list, I have no idea
> what it would take to package it.
>
> It has never been packaged for any Linux distribution as it is Java and
> until recently open source Java was not part of any distribution. But now it
> is. Yeah!
>
> I'd also like to bring up FireBible, which is a FireFox extension that
> requires JSword to be installed.
>
> In Him,
>   DM
>

Are you upstream developer? (Sorry can't remember)

I've downloaded the source tarball it doesn't have Authors, Copyright,
License, Readme, Install files so simply by looking at top-level
directory I have no clue who wrote it, what license it is and how to
set it up and start using it. Without this I can't even start
packaging JSword.

I then ran my magic tool "licensecheck -r ." which told me that all
files are LGPL 2.1 with incorrect FSF address. Either use template [1]
or change the address in your current template or ommit address at all
pointing to their website for example.

BTW I have no clue how to package java applications / libraries. I've
heard that ant is quite popular for java packages. If you are using
ant could you please give me some details about it. If you are not
using ant, could you please consider using it? There are tools
available in debian to turn ant based projects into deb's.

Cheers.


[1] Template:

one line to give the library's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) year  name of author

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA



-- 
With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич