[Groff] UTP - status/stasis report

[Larry Kollar]

First the bad news... guys, I've struck out on hosting. The Attribution 
License
is incompatible with the FDL, which disqualifies it for a home on 
Savannah.
As for SourceForge, well, I'll let them do the talking --

> The requirements for
> hosting on SourceForge.net are that the project be a software
> development project, and that the software released from that
> project be licensed under an Open Source license. [...]
>
> The project you submitted for hosting does appear to be
> licensed under an Open Source license.  However, your
> project is a content-generation project, and does not appear
> to be generating Open Source software for public consumption.
> Content-generating projects generally require more resources
> over time than normal software development projects, and do not
> provide the same form of benefit to the Open Source community as
> software projects.  As SourceForge.net limits its project hosting
> services to those projects which are developing Open Source
> software, your project does not, unfortunately, qualify for
> these hosting services.

The short version is that I'm still looking for a more permanent
home for the UTP project. I don't have a problem maintaining it
where it is, but if the site gets slashdotted I'll probably hit the
ISP's unspecified bandwidth limit. (If 750 people download a
1.4MB PDF, that's 1GB of data transfer.)


In somewhat better news, we're about done with the index.
A few chapters are outstanding, leaving about 3 chapters and
5 appendices to go. So unless there's a sudden flurry of
activity, I'm going to take advantage of the lull & do my taxes. :-)

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Unix Text Processing: the Revival
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