Re:[pilot-db-list] Databases

[Chalain Marc<mar...@vo...>]

> It would be helpful, if each of you out there could submit
> the homepage to your favourite search-machines, so that
> it can be found by people like us who, by some bad stoke of
> luck, have not come across this wonderful program!
> 
> Keywords could be:
> 
> Palm, PalmOS, Palm Database, Palm Databank, DB, PDB, 
> Pilot-DB, Palm-DB, Flat File, Flat-File, Open Source,
> GNU Public Licence, GPL, SourceForge, etc.
> 
> any other suggestions?

I already do that, and i inform some paper magazines.

> What should we do, in your opinion, with databases where we
> are not sure about the authority to reproduce them. Typically
> these would be databases that may have been converted from
> other Database formats, but in which there is no reference to
> the original author?

(1)A database handly builded without the right of the original author of the datas (not the databases) could be in the databank. (If you give the access to your datas for informations every body could reproduce it on paper.)
(2)If the datas come from another database and is generated by a pilot-db tools (pilot-DB or palm-db-tools) must be in the bank only with the right of the author. But if it's impossible to contact him the database should be free.
(3)A pilot-DB database mustn't be in free access without the right of the author.
That's is my opinion. I will begin to contact different MobileDB free database author to have the right to translate their databases on pilot-DB, you can do the same thing.

> Should we list them with the comment 'Author Unknown' or
> not at all?

The database must have the author's name of the database builder. in case 1 the body who write the pilot-DB data, case 2 the first builder and in comment the translater if he want, case 3 the author's name.

I think i will create a chunk in each database to collect information as the author's name. But in the next version.
I began the 0.3.3 version with, now, more filters, PalmOS 4.0 support (exchange databases with IR, BlueTooth, SMS ... if somebody have a device with this version of PalmOS can he contact me, please?), differentes pages in the records, list field item, link to another database field item...

Salut,
Marc.
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