Source forge tracking system for POC--Info required

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Hi Shuly,

Wait until I hear from them, in the meantime tell them it's the same group.

Here is what I told them in reference to those 2 questions raised by 
Sourceforge. The following statements were mentioned in the original grant 
proposal, except that we will use the Sourceforge, which we have now chosen to 
be an additional mirror site for distribution. Actually, we wanted to have a bug 
tracking system only, but we need to furnish all these details in order to have it.

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 > 1. A technical description (at least two paragraphs in
 > length) of the software you are developing, including the
 > programming language(s) used in its development and its
 > major features.
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the ontologies will be made available both as flat file DAG-Edit format, and as 
richer RDF [http:// www.w3.org/RDF/] and DAML-OIL [http:// 
www.w3.org/TR/daml+oil-reference] formats that DAG-Edit and a number of other GO 
Consortium tools can process.  Diagrams used to supplement the text definitions 
will be downloadable in common archive formats (tar-gzip and zip).
Although this project is not primarily directed at software development, any 
software developed in support of the Plant Ontology Consortium 
(http://www.plantontology.org) will be available under an open source license.

Technical info for source forge -
we are using tools developed by the Gene Ontology Project
operating system: unix / linux
programming language: perl,  cgi scripts
database: MySQL


 > 2. Details of the Open Source license (either the name of an
 > OSI-approved license, or the exact terms of the license if
 > it is not an OSI-approved license) which will be used by
 > your project.
 >

All ontologies, associations and software will be released to the public under 
an open source license that allows free use and distribution 
(http://www.opensource.org).  Releases of ontologies will be made following a 
quarterly schedule as outlined in the project description.  Releases of 
associations will follow the release schedules of TAIR and Gramene, software 
will be released as soon as it is judged minimally useable by third parties. The 
manner and mode of release will be as described in the project description.
In accordance with common open source practice, all works will be copyrighted 
jointly by the members of the Plant Ontology Consortium solely for the purpose 
of protecting the integrity of the work.

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