Bug#521425: ITP: gutenmark -- Attractive formatter for Project Gutenberg ebooks

2009-03-27 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: John Goerzen 

* Package name: gutenmark
  Version : 20090216
  Upstream Author : Ronald S. Burkey 
* URL : http://www.sandroid.org/GutenMark/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : Attractive formatter for Project Gutenberg ebooks

 GutenMark is a tool for automatically creating high-quality HTML or
 LaTeX markup from Project Gutenberg etexts.  In combination with
 other freely-available conversion tools GutenMark aims to convert
 Project Gutenberg etexts into publication-quality Postscript or PDF,
 for print-on-demand applications.  The goal is for this conversion to
 be completely automatic, without manual markup or editing.
 .
 In other words, Project Gutenberg has retained the content of the
 books in converting them to etexts, but has discarded the
 formatting.  GutenMark aims to restore the formatting. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)



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Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread viral
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> A gutenberg index and retrieval program, OTOH...
> (mental note: must write this)

A search on freshmeat reveals a neat program called gutenbook.
Its in perl, and uses perl-gtk.
It does indexing and retrieving, and although still in beta, is quite a nice
tool. 

And it is GPL.

viral


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Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> A gutenberg index and retrieval program, OTOH...
> (mental note: must write this)

Have a look at www.gutenbook.org  

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Andreas Fuchs

Today, Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>> I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg
>> (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian.
> This came already to discussion some months ago when someone proposed to
> package the constitution of Finland.

Yes. The same point was made when "anarchism" was packaged. Gutenberg
seems to be a nice argument when it comes to massive data that is not
really debian-rele^W^W^W^W^W^W.
(No, I will not go there, and I hope that you won't, either (-8)

> The point is that packaging all of the Gutenberg files would take huge
> disk space, and the "added value" of debian packaging would be quite small
> since downloading files from Gutenberg is very easy.

A gutenberg index and retrieval program, OTOH...
(mental note: must write this)

> Ralf.

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Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Followup to: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard)
Date: 02 Sep 2000 11:00:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message of Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:32:08 +0530
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg
> (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian.
> 
> It would be great to use 'apt' to get all the great work done there.
> 
> It shouldn't be difficult at all to package. I don't know if this has been
> discussed earlier (sorry, I didn't check the archives) but I'd like to know
> of what other people think about it.

 Not all Project Gutenberg documents are DFSG free.  They use a
file called `SMALL PRINT' as a license document.  There are currently
several versions of `SMALL PRINT' in their archive.  Ver.04.29.93,  and
Ver.03.08.92 require a royalty for commercial distribution.  I believe
I have seen versions that do not restrict commercial distribution, but
I can't locate an example at the moment.

 Most, if not all versions of `SMALL PRINT' include the following:

This PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm etext, like most PROJECT GUTENBERG-
tm etexts, is a "public domain" work distributed by Professor
Michael S. Hart through the Project Gutenberg Association at
Carnegie-Mellon University (the "Project").  Among other
things, this means that no one owns a United States copyright
on or for this work, so the Project (and you!) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying copyright royalties.  Special rules, set forth
below, apply if you wish to copy and distribute this etext
under the Project's "PROJECT GUTENBERG" trademark.

 . . . . .

DISTRIBUTION UNDER "PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm"
You may distribute copies of this etext electronically, or by
disk, book or any other medium if you either delete this
"Small Print!" and all other references to Project Gutenberg,
or:
(Followed by license conditions,including the royalty requirement.)


 It appears that if the `SMALL PRINT' is deleted, the remainder of
the document is DFSG free.  However, there would be no copyright
notice or license attached to that copy.  I am not sure if it could be
distributed in Debian without a copyright notice or license.  I have
copied this to debian-legal for an opinion on this.

Bob
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Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:32:08PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg
> (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian.
>
> It would be great to use 'apt' to get all the great work done there.
>
> It shouldn't be difficult at all to package. I don't know if this has
> been discussed earlier (sorry, I didn't check the archives) but I'd
> like to know of what other people think about it.

feel free to make your own apt-gettable repository for project gutenberg
packages.

personally, i think that a script which regularly downloaded the index
of available texts, providing a searchable database, and capable of
automatically fetching any one or more of them for you would be more
useful...

and it would be useful to non debian users too. think of it as the apt
equivalent for project gutenberg :)

craig

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Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Ralf Treinen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg
> (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian.

This came already to discussion some months ago when someone proposed to
package the constitution of Finland.

The point is that packaging all of the Gutenberg files would take huge
disk space, and the "added value" of debian packaging would be quite small
since downloading files from Gutenberg is very easy.

Ralf.



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Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread viral
Hello,

I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg
(http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian.

It would be great to use 'apt' to get all the great work done there.

It shouldn't be difficult at all to package. I don't know if this has been
discussed earlier (sorry, I didn't check the archives) but I'd like to know
of what other people think about it.

viral


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