[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freehoo-devel] Re: freeipmi and GNU

[Anand Babu]

Please ignore my previous posting with subject 
       " Re: [Freehoo-devel] Re: freeipmi and GNU".

I accidentally posted while in middle of composing. I did re-send a
correct one after that.

Thanks,
-ab
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| > Questionnaire
| >
| > * General Information ** Package name and version:
| 
| FreeIPMI 0.1.0 (Alpha-4 QA-1)
| 
| 
| > ** Author <Email>:
| 
| Anand Babu <address@hidden>
| 
| 
| > ** URL to home page (if any):
| 
| http://www.nongnu.org/freehoo/
| 
| 
| > ** URL to sources (if any):
| 
| ftp://ftp.californiadigital.com/pub/freeipmi/
| 
| 
| > ** Brief description of the package:
| 
| FreeIPMI is a programmable/extensible system for building intelligent
| platform management applications. This system includes its own
| portable implementation of user-space device drivers and implements
| IPMI 1.5 specification.
| 
| Supports
|  - C library interface (libfreeipmi).  Shell with readline interface
|  - (fish - freeipmi shell).  Scheme based scripting interface.
| 
| Utilities and extensions like "sensors", "bmc-config", "ipmi-sel",
| "rmcp-ping", "ipmi-power" are already built on top of this system.
| 
| 
| > * Code ** Dependencies:
| >     Please list the package's dependencies (source language,
| >     libraries, etc.).
| 
| - libguile libreadline
| 
| 
| > ** Configuration & compilation:
| >     It might or might not use Autoconf/Automake, but it should meet
| >     GNU Standards.  See http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_48.html.
| 
| Yes it uses GNU Autoconf/Automake.
| 
| 
| > ** Documentation:
| >     We recommend using Texinfo
| >     (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/) for documentation, and
| >     writing both reference and tutorial information in the same
| >     manual.  Please see http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_32.html.
| 
| Yes it uses GNU Texinfo.
| 
| 
| > * Licensing:
| >    This is crucial.  Both the software itself *and all dependencies*
| >    (third-party libraries, etc.) must be free software in order to
| >    be included in GNU.
| >    
| >    Please see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a
| >    practical guide to which licenses are free (for GNU's purposes)
| >    and which are not.  Please give specific url's to any licenses
| >    involved that are not listed on that page.
| 
| Freehoo and all its dependencies are licensed under GNU GPL
| 
| > * Similar projects:
| >    Please search at least the Free Software Directory
| >    (http://www.gnu.org/directory/) and savannah.gnu.org
| >    (http://savannah.gnu.org/search/) for projects similar to yours.
| >    If any exist, please explain what motivated you to write yours
| >    and what the principal differences are.
| 
| No projects listed in http://www.gnu.org/directory/ and
| http://savannah.gnu.org/search/.
| 
| How ever there are source-forge projects:
|  - Open IPMI (Linux kernel module) IPMItool (uses Open IPMI driver)
|  - Panicsel IPMI Project (uses Open IPMI driver) IPMI on FreeBSD
|  - ipmitools (uses Open IPMI driver)
| 
| 
| FreeIPMI vs Others:
| -------------------
| - More features.  Better by design.
|     * User space portable implementation of device drivers. Designed
|        with GNU/Hurd in mind.
|     * Extensible system.  Scripting, Shell and C API interfaces.
| - Actively developed and supported by California Digital
|   (californiadigital.com), LLNL (llnl.gov) and Intel (intel.com).
| - Tested on IA64, IA32 and AMD64 architectures.  Already in use by a
| - large super computer (4096 64-bit Itanium2
|   processors with 8TB RAM) and many corporate data centers (like GE,
|   Synopsys ...)
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