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authorJosh Heidenreich <josh.sickmate@gmail.com>2012-02-09 13:42:42 +1030
committerKohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida@suse.com>2012-02-08 23:18:06 -0500
commitdd929dd089abb86bc2206bc9749722682c70f3f1 (patch)
treedf1c54c223fde472abb1c680eac03c84cda0bae6 /redland
parentec84bbb208d59d042f8f0522fa96ed2ad94f2ca7 (diff)
Added and improved READMEs for modules whihc used to be in libs-extern
Diffstat (limited to 'redland')
-rw-r--r--redland/README19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/redland/README b/redland/README
index 87299ebf1fd4..6ea6f953ca2c 100644
--- a/redland/README
+++ b/redland/README
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
-Redland RDF library (librdf)
+Redland RDF library (librdf) from [http://librdf.org/]
-Module: external/redland
+== License ==
+[git:redland/LICENSE.txt]
+Triple-licensed: LGPL v2+/GPL v2+/Apache v2
+Note that Sun distributes this software only under LGPL v2
-Upstream URL: http://librdf.org/
-
-License: Triple-licensed: LGPL v2+/GPL v2+/Apache v2
- Note that Sun distributes this software only under LGPL v2
- (see LICENSE.txt)
-
-Description:
+== Description ==
This module contains the third-party Redland RDF / librdf library, which
is needed to support data in RDF (Resource Description Framework) format.
It consists of 3 parts:
@@ -19,9 +16,10 @@ It consists of 3 parts:
Libraries: libraptor, librasqal, librdf
-Patches:
+== Patches ==
There are several patches, most of which contain only hacks to get it to
build with OOo build system.
+
There used to be also 3 patches here that fix bugs in redland and ought to be
of general interest:
- redland-1.0.8.patch.free_null:
@@ -32,6 +30,7 @@ of general interest:
- redland-1.0.8.patch.storage_hashes_list_duplicates:
hashes, list storage: if contexts are enabled, then it is possible to add
duplicate statements
+
Attempts to upstream these patches failed for reasons upstream kept to
themselves. Now these patches are replaced with workarounds in unoxml.
Note to future maintainers: work around redland bugs in client code.