[CS-FSLUG] Adopt a program?

[N. Thompson]

Christopher Rose wrote:

>I don't know much about Java, but I might be interested in learning more. Please tell me more about Gned and how it works. I might trying scripting it into my Grey Cat Linux Machine, if it seems like something that I am capable of.
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>Pax,
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>Christopher
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Gned is my longest surviving Java program, its a simple text editor that 
unfortunately due to the Java programming language itself requires more 
system resources then your average similar program written in C or C++ 
although with the new Java 1.5 runtime environment I runs significantly 
faster then with Java 1.4. One of my goals was to make the program 
modular if what I did could qualify as that, I split up the compiled 
java class files into a few different files for easier updating without 
having to uninstall and reinstall the entire thing, at first I simply 
did this so the themes could easily be updated at any time however as 
time went on I decided to do make it possible to have an almost empty 
themes jar file to reduce the size (albeit not by much since Java 
binaries are very compact). The code requires at least Java 1.4 as well 
as the swing toolkit which comes by default with Sun's implementation to 
compile and run.

Some third party components in Gned are GPLed and LGPLed themes from 
http://www.javootoo.com as well as the KDE crystal icons. I am hoping 
that whoever decides to continue development in Gned continues to 
release it under an open source license so I can continue to contribute 
code and improvements to it every once in a while, if I were to hand it 
over to someone in this list then I would be a little less protective of 
the license and copyrights in the hopes that everyone here like the 
majority of Linux users and people in this list see the value of using 
an open source license. What I said on my web page about keeping the 
copyrights for the code was simply to protect from someone trying to 
change the license to something proprietary after I were to hand it over 
to them, it shouldn't affect your ability to modify, rewrite or 
redistribute the software and you can still make money off GPLed 
software if you so desire, also if you would like the license changed to 
something other then the GPL that still qualifies as an open source 
license let me know and assuming the license would still allow for the 
modification and redistribution of the software by myself and other OSS 
developers I'd be more then willing to accept.

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