# HG changeset patch # User Goffi # Date 1686122225 -7200 # Node ID 88f99488e604b08e3d7ba37d85a80ee656c61dbf # Parent 01b8d68edd708703f26b4e9d1023144f798e487a doc: update README to be more concise, and just talk about the frontend diff -r 01b8d68edd70 -r 88f99488e604 README --- a/README Tue Jun 06 17:40:16 2023 +0200 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,168 +0,0 @@ -Libervia (Salut à Toi) -(c) Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi 2008-2021 -(c) Adrien Cossa aka Souliane 2013-2016 - -Libervia is a frontend for Salut à Toi (SàT) -SàT is a XMPP (Jabber) client. - -** LICENCE ** - -Libervia is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as -the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or -(at your option) any later version. - -Libervia is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -GNU Affero General Public License for more details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License -along with Libervia. If not, see . - - -** ABOUT ** - -Libervia is a web frontend for the "Salut à Toi" (SàT) XMPP client. Please check SàT for more information (it's anyway needed to run libervia) - -** How to use it ? ** - -Refer to the wiki for installation/use instructions: -http://wiki.goffi.org/wiki/Libervia - -refer to SàT README for more informations - -** CREDIT ** - -A big big thank to the authors/contributors of... - -proxy65: -SàT (plugin_xep_0065) use nearly all the code from proxy65 (http://code.google.com/p/proxy65/) which was coded by Dave Smith (2002-2004) and maintained by Fabio Forno (2007-2008). -As the original MIT licence allows, the code is reused and sub-licenced until GPL v3 to follow the rest of the code. - -progressbar: -SàT (jp) use ProgressBar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar/2.2), a class coded by Nilton Volpato which allow the textual representation of progression. - -twisted: -SàT is heavily based on the twisted framework (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/), a very great tool which offer a lot of protocols management. There are too many contributors to name them here, so take a look on the website :). - -wokkel: -SàT use a library with high level enhancements on top of twisted, which is called wokkel (http://wokkel.ik.nu). Lot of thanks to Ralph Meijer and all other contributors. - -Urwid: -Primitivus is based on Urwid (http://excess.org/urwid/) which saved me a lot of time. It's really a great library to easily make a sophisticated interface. - -Pyjamas: -Libervia is built with a Pyjamas (http://pyjs.org), a Google Web Toolkit port for python, including Python to Javascript compiler, and Pyjamas Desktop which allow to execute the same application on the desktop or through a browser. It's really an amazing tool. - -lxml(http://lxml.de/): -this powerful and efficient XML parsing module is used sometimes to replace Twisted internal tools: its API is handy, and it have some features like evil content cleaning. - -pillow(https://python-pillow.github.io/): -This image manipulation module is used for avatars - -txJSON-RPC: -Libervia use txJSON-RPC (https://launchpad.net/txjsonrpc), a twisted library to communicate with the browser's javascript throught JSON-RPC - -Mutagen: -Mutagen (https://bitbucket.org/lazka/mutagen) is an audio metadata handling library, it's used by the radiocol plugin. - -Python OTR (http://python-otr.pentabarf.de), PyCrypto (https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto) and pyOpenSSL(https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl): -Used for cryptography - -otr.js and its dependencies Big Integer Library, CryptoJS, EventEmitter: -Libervia frontend uses otr.js and its dependencies: - - otr.js was coded by Arlo Breault (2014) and is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 - - Big Integer Library was coded by Leemon Baird (2000-2013) and is in the public domain - - CryptoJS was coded by Jeff Mott (2009-2013) and is released under the MIT licence - - EventEmitter was coded by Oliver Caldwell (2011-2013) and is released under the MIT licence -As the original licences allow, the code is reused and sub-licenced until GPL v3 to follow the rest of the code. - -mardown (https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/) and html2text (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html2text/2015.6.21): -both are used for syntaxes conversions - -Jinja2 (http://jinja.pocoo.org/): -a poweful template engine for Python that we use for designing Libervia's static blog pages - -miniupnp (http://miniupnp.free.fr/): -this UPnP-IGD implementation is used to facilitate P2P sessions - -netifaces (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces): -when available, this module is used to detect local IPs - -pictures found in the sat_media repository and used by SàT and Libervia: -Please read the credits and licence information that are given in the README and COPYING files for each work: http://repos.goffi.org/sat_media/file - -the powerfull ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) is used by the script written to split the previously named picture. - -PyXDF (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg): -Used to follow FreeDesktop XDG standards - -A special thank to people working on XMPP standards, libre standards are the way to go ! - -and the others: -and of course, nothing would be possible without Python (http://www.python.org/), GNU and the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org, http://www.fsf.org/), the Linux Kernel (http://www.kernel.org/), and the coder of the tools I use like Vim (http://www.vim.org/), Mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/), or all the KDE stuff (http://www.kde.org/ and of course http://amarok.kde.org/), and also XFCE (http://www.xfce.org), etc. Thanks thanks thanks, thanks to everybody in the Free (Libre) chain for making a part of the dream. - -If I forgot any credit (and I probably have), please contact me (mail below) to fix it. - - -** CONTRIBUTORS ** - -Salut à Toi has received contributions from: - -- Adrien Vigneron : huge work on Libervia's CSS, SàT Logo (the mascot is his work), and Quiz game graphics. He's friendly and talented, his work is really appreciated. - -- Xavier Maillard : bugs fixes. He's following the project for a while, maybe a future frontend contributor? - -- Emmanuel Gil Peyrot : bugs fixes, Libervia's notification, Libervia as a twisted application plugin. A guy always around XMPP projects, he plan to work on a non D-Bus bridge. - -- Matthieu Rakotojaona : English translation of the social contract. A great quality translation! - -- Thomas Preud'homme : bugs fixes. He's also one of the co-maintainer of the Debian package. - -- Dal : profiles management, argparse refactoring in jp. - -- Matteo Cypriani : jp's mainloop update + doc improvements + various fixes. He's also the other co-maintainer of the Debian package. - -- Olly Betts : icon fix in Wix [N.B: Wix has been removed] - -Many thanks to them. - -A big thanks also to all the maintainers of SàT packages. - - -** CONTRIBUTIONS ** - -Here are the URIs you can use to publish/retrieve tickets or merge requests: - -tickets: xmpp:pubsub.goffi.org?;node=org.salut-a-toi.tickets%3A0 (please use "libervia" label) -merge requests: xmpp:pubsub.goffi.org?;node=org.salut-a-toi.merge_requests%3A0 (please use "libervia" label) - -Tickets and merge requests are handled by SàT itself using XMPP. - - -** CONTACT ** - -You can join us on the XMPP MUC room (sat@chat.jabberfr.org), or individually: - -Goffi: - - goffi@goffi.org (e-mail) - - goffi@jabber.fr (jid) - - http://www.goffi.org (blog, with fresh news about SàT) - -Souliane: - - souliane@mailoo.org (e-mail) - - souliane@libervia.org (jid) - -You'll find the latest version and other stuffs on *.goffi.org websites: - -- wiki (wiki.goffi.org), in French & English so far -- ftp (ftp.goffi.org) for the latest version, or previous ones (and other projects) -- bugtracker (bugs.goffi.org) to report any problem or give suggestions -- mailing lists (lists.goffi.org) - -and the official SàT website is at http://www.salut-a-toi.org - - - -This software is dedicated to Roger Poisson. diff -r 01b8d68edd70 -r 88f99488e604 README.md --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/README.md Wed Jun 07 09:17:05 2023 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# Libervia Web + +### Copyrights + +- Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi 2008-2023 +- Adrien Cossa aka Souliane 2013-2016 +- Additional contributions by community members + +## License + +Libervia is a Libre software (Free as in "Freedom"), distributed under the AGPL v3+ +license. For the full license, please refer to the `COPYING` file. + +## Relevant URLs + +Here are some useful URLs, all of which (except for the source code repository) are +powered by Libervia itself, showcasing the flexibility and versatility of the tool: + +- Official Website: +- Documentation: +- Bug Tracker: +- Source Code: +- News: (currently the same as the blog below) +- Main Developer's Blog: + +Additionally, our blogs are accessible via ActivityPub thanks to the Libervia XMPP <=> +ActivityPub gateway. + +## About + +Libervia Web is the official web frontend of the Libervia project. It is designed to be +user-friendly and offers a wide range of features including instant messaging, blogs, +forums, photo albums, file sharing, event organization, personal agendas, and various +kinds of lists (tickets, TODOs, shopping, etc.). Upcoming enhancements include the +addition of video calls. Libervia Web is an all-encompassing, universally compatible tool, +ideal for individuals, small and large groups, associations, internal communication, +public-facing websites, and private social networks. + +The platform includes an easy-to-use invitation system, which simplifies the process of +bringing new members into the network. This system allows people to participate even if +they don't have an account. + +Leveraging the power of [Brython](https://www.brython.info/), Python can be utilized both +server-side and in the browser. In essence, Libervia Web is a web framework created with +Python, capitalizing on the robustness of XMPP and Libervia for data management. This +makes it highly customizable, enabling the frontend to be easily adapted for specific use +cases or themes. + +For additional information, please visit the [Official Website](https://libervia.org) or +the [Libervia Backend Repository](https://repos.goffi.org/libervia-backend).