[luxor-xul-develop] Re: Developer Activity

[Gerald B. <ge...@va...>]

Hi Daniel,

> I am very interested in getting involved in the work
> with this project. 

  You are more than welcome to join in.

> The first concern is
> that their is only one
> developer listed on the sourceforge site.  

  I don't hand out "committer" status willy-nilly.
Check out jxul and see why this doesn't work.

  However, I plan to cut down the red tape and make it
easier to contribute to the source.

  Using CVS for now is just unnesessary overhead. See
the discussion threads 


http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=899528&forum_id=9424

  and 


http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=906295&forum_id=9425

  for details. 

  Eventually once the source is more stable I move it
into CVS.

> I don't
> believe that this is
> a one-man show; 

  No it isn't. My grandma is helping me out.

> however, it concerns me that I can
> only view the source
> on-line...i.e. I cannot access the source, run
> builds against it

  You can download the source. You can built Luxor and
Ramses and so on. Please check again.

> If others are developing this
> framework, where is
> this code submitted to and why is the source for
> these new submissions

   Please see the threads mentioned above. 

>     Modul-mania. New modules include: Apollo,
> Caramel, Houston, Rachel,
>     and Salsa
>               o Apollo - Test Skeleton for Web
> Start/JNLP
>               o Caramel - Java Extensions (non-GUI
> only)
>               o Houston - Yet Another Status and
> Logging Toolkit
>               o Rachel - Resource Loading (includes
> HTTP web service)
>               o Salsa - Swing GUI Add-Ons
>     
> not viewable or accessible except in binary format
> (JAR files)?

  I will post the source once I get back from my
holiday. Eventually I want to create a site for each
module, for now, however, I will bundle the source
with Luxor.

> I would like to become a contributor, however this
> project "smells" like
> a proprietary project under the guise of
> "OpenSource".  If I am wrong I
> sincerely apologies -- I am not out to flame anyone

  You are wrong. Luxor use the GNU GPL. Please educate
yourself at the Free Software Foundation for details.
If the GPL doesn't work for you, check out Xulux - a
Java Xul project just starting using the Apache
License.

> -- I just want to be
> given a fair chance to contribute my piece...without
> fear of having it
> taken away by someone "dual" licensing my
> contributions;

  Again Luxor is licensed under the GPL. For
commercial projects that don't want to be bound by the
GPL rules I offer paid licenses. The license money
funds further Luxor development and docs. I also plan
to hand out cash to contributors (so that noone feels
ripped off).

> thus barring my
> opportunity to build a proprietary application upon
> this framework.

 You can build a proprietary app on Luxor as long as
you follow the GPL rules. 

  - Gerald