Review: OrthCal

[Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos]

Hello again! I completed all the changes that you requested. The packages
are currently being built by Launchpad.

2012/9/4 Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com>

> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos
> <dgkontopoulos at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>  > For some reason, the Exec part of the desktop file has to be
> > "/usr/bin/perl /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/orthcal/bin/OrthCal.pl"
> > in order for the launcher to start OrthCal.
> >
> > Removing 'perl' and listing only the script's location disables the
> > launcher, even
> > if the script has a correct Perl shebang and runs just fine from
> terminal. I
> > am
> > clueless as to why that happens. Please, tell me how I could change the
> > desktop
> > file and have the launcher work at the same time.
> >
>
> Maybe perl program while executing looks for the full path in .desktop
> file. You can override the warning if you wish.

I found out the source of the problem. I had to enter an extra line at the
.desktop file, containing
StartupWMClass=OrthCal.pl
Now everything works perfectly, even without perl at the Exec command.

>> As a side note: The saints.db file is good :) (If you had got this
> >> from somewhere it is advisable to mention their name in a file called
> >> CONTRIBUTORS in the src package and a mention in d/copyright)
> >
> > The db file contains entries for daily feasts from two websites
> currently.
> > Orthodoxwiki.org -for english content- and saint.gr -for greek content.
> I
> > wrote
> > myself a script to extract the information from these two sources.
> >
> > The first source offers all content under a CC BY-SA 2.5 license.
> >
>
> You can put any authors name and the file under a license in d/copyright
>
> See:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification
>
> > Saint.gr on the other hand does not offer a specific license. Rather,
> they
> > mention
> > "freely ye have received, freely give" in Greek, explaining that anyone
> can
> > use the
> > content for any purpose, even without citing its source.
> >
> > I am citing both these sources in the about section of OrthCal. How can I
> > refer to
> > saint.gr's license in debian/copyright? Also, how do I explain about
> the db
> > having
> > content coming under two different licenses? In the future, more
> languages
> > might
> > be added, leading to perhaps other licenses as well.
> >
>
> You can list the source and put the saints.gr file under public-domain I
> guess
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Done.

Regards,
Dimitrios
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