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Even being the recode
author and current maintainer, I am no
specialist in charset standards. I only made recode
along the
years to solve my own needs, but felt it was extendable for the needs of
others. Some GNU people liked the program structure and suggested to
make it more widely available. I rely on GNU users judgement for what
is best to be done next.
Properly protecting GNU recode
about possible copyright fights is
a pain for me and for contributors, but we cannot avoid addressing the
issue in the long run. Besides, the Free Software Foundation, which
mandates the GNU project, is very sensible to this matter. GNU
standards require that I be cautious before looking at copyrighted code.
The safest and simplest way for me is to gather ideas and reprogram them
anew, even if this might slow me down considerably. For contributions
going beyond a few lines of code here and there, the FSF definitely
requires employer disclaimers and copyright assignments.
Many users contributed to GNU recode
already, I am grateful to
them for their interest and involvement. Some suggestions can be
integrated quickly while some others have to be delayed, I have to draw
a line somewhere when time comes to make a new release, about what would
go in it and what would go in the next. Also, when you contribute
something to recode
, please explain what it is about. Do
not take for granted that I know those charsets which are familiar to
you. Your explanations could well find their way into this
documentation, too.
Mail suggestions, documentation errors and bug reports to
bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
or, if you prefer, directly to
Francois Pinard `pinard@iro.umontreal.ca'. Do not be afraid to
report details, because this program is the mere aggregation of hundreds
of details.
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