Posts by Dave Page

Topic: Incorrect licence detection caused by Bison

Hi Robin,

Sorry for the delay in replying.

Does the exception apply absolutely anytime the Bison exception comment text appears? (If so, why do they bother listing GPL above?)

I'm not overly familiar with Bison myself (we just hijack parse.h from PostgreSQL), however I suspect that the licence is included because the file appears in a template format as part of GNU BIson (I can't see why they'd include it otherwise). When Bison is run however, the resulting output file is obviously not GPL'd (much as a binary built with GCC isn't). In the vast majority of cases I believe the exception will apply, except in Bison itself, and any derivative projects.

Or do we actually have to do some clever work to find out whether the file is part of a Bison output? (If so, is there a reliable/easy marker in the file to detect that it is Bison output?)

Not that I can see :-(

Thanks, Dave.

Topic: Incorrect licence detection caused by Bison

The pgAdmin III project has been listed as having one file under the GPL. I suspect the file in question is http://svn.pgadmin.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/pgadmin3/pgadmin/include/parser/parse.h?view=markup. I suspect this also affects the PostgreSQL projetc which has the same file.

Please consider adding an exception to the GPL detection code to ignore files containing:

/* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction. This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation in version 1.24 of Bison. */

It would also be very helpful if it were possible to see which files were categorised under each licence.

Thanks, Dave

Topic: New stats reports

Thanks Robin!

Topic: New stats reports

Hi,

Apologies if this is common knowledge - I couldn't find any obvious answers in the FAQ or forums though.

I added the pgAdmin III project last week, and added our SVN repo. Since a day or so after I added it, the enlistments page has read:

svn://svn.pgadmin.org/trunk/pgadmin3 No job is scheduled.

whilst the project page states that the report is not yet ready and to check the enlistments page for the status. Does the report generation not get shown as a seperate job on the enlistments page, or has something gone wrong?

Thanks, Dave.