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| author | Goffi <goffi@goffi.org> |
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| date | Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:42:00 +0200 |
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| 1 * NOTE: this is coming from old REAME file, and it's not up-to-date, please check | |
| 2 `pyproject.toml` to see a list of third party projects used as requirements and Mercurial | |
| 3 logs of the various repositories to get a complete list of contributors* | |
| 4 | |
| 5 ## CREDIT | |
| 6 | |
| 7 A big big thank to the authors/contributors of... | |
| 8 | |
| 9 proxy65: | |
| 10 Libervia (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). | |
| 11 As the original MIT licence allows, the code is reused and sub-licenced until GPL v3 to follow the rest of the code. | |
| 12 | |
| 13 progressbar: | |
| 14 Libervia (jp) use ProgressBar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar/2.2), a class coded by Nilton Volpato which allow the textual representation of progression. | |
| 15 | |
| 16 twisted: | |
| 17 Libervia 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 :). | |
| 18 | |
| 19 wokkel: | |
| 20 Libervia 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. | |
| 21 | |
| 22 Urwid: | |
| 23 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. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 Pyjamas: | |
| 26 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. | |
| 27 | |
| 28 Kivy and its linked tools (python-for-android, buildozer, plyer, pyjnius): | |
| 29 Kivy and linked tools (https://kivy.org) are used to build Cagou frontend, and to port it on several platforms. Excellent pieces of software, well thought, | |
| 30 | |
| 31 Kivy garden: | |
| 32 in addition to Kivy itself, extension from the garden are used: | |
| 33 - contextmenu: used to display main and context menus | |
| 34 | |
| 35 lxml(http://lxml.de/): | |
| 36 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. | |
| 37 | |
| 38 pillow(https://python-pillow.github.io/): | |
| 39 This image manipulation module is used for avatars | |
| 40 | |
| 41 txJSON-RPC: | |
| 42 Libervia use txJSON-RPC (https://launchpad.net/txjsonrpc), a twisted library to communicate with the browser's javascript throught JSON-RPC | |
| 43 | |
| 44 Mutagen: | |
| 45 Mutagen (https://bitbucket.org/lazka/mutagen) is an audio metadata handling library, it's used by the radiocol plugin. | |
| 46 | |
| 47 Python OTR (http://python-otr.pentabarf.de), PyCrypto (https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto) and pyOpenSSL(https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl): | |
| 48 Used for cryptography | |
| 49 | |
| 50 otr.js and its dependencies Big Integer Library, CryptoJS, EventEmitter: | |
| 51 Libervia frontend uses otr.js and its dependencies: | |
| 52 - otr.js was coded by Arlo Breault (2014) and is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 | |
| 53 - Big Integer Library was coded by Leemon Baird (2000-2013) and is in the public domain | |
| 54 - CryptoJS was coded by Jeff Mott (2009-2013) and is released under the MIT licence | |
| 55 - EventEmitter was coded by Oliver Caldwell (2011-2013) and is released under the MIT licence | |
| 56 As the original licences allow, the code is reused and sub-licenced until GPL v3 to follow the rest of the code. | |
| 57 | |
| 58 mardown (https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/) and html2text (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html2text/2015.6.21): | |
| 59 both are used for syntaxes conversions | |
| 60 | |
| 61 Jinja2 (http://jinja.pocoo.org/): | |
| 62 a poweful template engine for Python that we use for designing Libervia's static blog pages | |
| 63 | |
| 64 miniupnp (http://miniupnp.free.fr/): | |
| 65 this UPnP-IGD implementation is used to facilitate P2P sessions | |
| 66 | |
| 67 netifaces (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces): | |
| 68 when available, this module is used to detect local IPs | |
| 69 | |
| 70 pictures found in the libervia_media repository and used by Libervia and Libervia: | |
| 71 Please read the credits and licence information that are given in the README and COPYING files for each work: http://repos.goffi.org/libervia_media/file | |
| 72 | |
| 73 the powerfull ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) is used by the script written to split the previously named picture. | |
| 74 | |
| 75 PyXDF (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg): | |
| 76 Used to follow FreeDesktop XDG standards | |
| 77 | |
| 78 A special thank to people working on XMPP standards, libre standards are the way to go ! | |
| 79 | |
| 80 and the others: | |
| 81 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 we 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 this. | |
| 82 | |
| 83 If we forgot any credit (and we probably have), please contact us (mail below) to fix it. | |
| 84 | |
| 85 ## CONTRIBUTORS | |
| 86 | |
| 87 Salut à Toi has received contributions from: | |
| 88 | |
| 89 - Adrien Vigneron <adrienvigneron@mailoo.org>: huge work on Libervia's CSS, Libervia Logo (the mascot is his work), and Quiz game graphics. | |
| 90 | |
| 91 - Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>: bugs fixes, libervia_templates installation. | |
| 92 | |
| 93 - Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>: bugs fixes, Libervia's notification, Libervia as a twisted application plugin. | |
| 94 | |
| 95 - Matthieu Rakotojaona <matthieu.rakotojaona@gmail.com>: English translation of the social contract. | |
| 96 | |
| 97 - Thomas Preud'homme <robotux@debian.org>: bugs fixes. He's also one of the co-maintainer of the Debian package. | |
| 98 | |
| 99 - Dal <kedals0@gmail.com>: profiles management, argparse refactoring in jp. | |
| 100 | |
| 101 - Matteo Cypriani <mcy@lm7.fr>: jp's mainloop update + doc improvements + various fixes. He's also the other co-maintainer of the Debian package. | |
| 102 | |
| 103 - Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>: icon fix in Wix [N.B.: Wix has since been removed] | |
| 104 | |
| 105 - Geoffrey Pouzet <chteufleur@kingpenguin.tk>: XEP-0070 and XEP-0184 implementations | |
| 106 | |
| 107 - Arnaud Joset <info@agayon.be>: setup fixes | |
| 108 | |
| 109 Many thanks to them. | |
| 110 | |
| 111 A big thank also to all the maintainers of Libervia packages. |