[Gterm-discuss] Things for me to do

[Timothy M. <th...@ya...>]

I've just actually subscribed to the list.  I'd been reading on the web
before, but there are things I should respond to.

Joerg said:

 > 2. port to FreeBSD
 
 The same. Theosib, can you chance the project overview next week? ;-)


Let me know whatever changes you would like to be made to the
documentation, and I will make them.  Also feel free to make your own
mods to it; if you want me to check things, just check in to CVS what
you write, and I can edit it for structure, etc.

As for the overview, are you referring to the short description on the
summary page or the one at gterm.sourceforge.net?  Tell me what you
want, and I will do it.

Additionally, both of you guys are project administrators, and although
I think we should all agree on changes before they are made, you are
able to make them, so you don't always have to ask me.  But on the
other hand, I am willing to do my share of the work on the project.

My attitude towards GTerm is this:  Although I wrote it initially, you
guys are now making the contributions, and you can have whatever
influence you want.  I would like to have the original credit, but by
nature of being under a GNU license, it is Free Software.  I claim some
ownership, because I have an emotional attachment to it, but I wish to
claim far less control by comparison, and I am willing to share in
everything.


Also, another issue is the matter of the license.  I would prefer that
the library remain under LGPL, but it was suggested that we put it
under GPL.  Well, there's the library part and there's the X terminal
example part.  We could put the latter under GPL.  You guys let me know
what you want, and we'll come to an agreement on it.


Finally, I had been working on a spin-off of GTerm which was designed
for an embedded terminal.  I had designed the FPGA code, and I'd coded
the software for a small embedded processor.  Unfortunately, I was
never able to get an FPGA and CPU combination that I felt was
cost-effective and sufficiently capable.  What I wrote is entirely in
C.  It's pretty far along in capability.  It's been a while, but as I
recall, all I had left to do was scour vt100.net to make sure I was as
compliant as possible.  I am interested in having you two look at it
(in confidence) and extract from it any ideas you want for adding to
GTerm.  I reserve the right to use the original C code for a real
terminal in the future.


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