For the record, my work on GnuPG was largely funded by the US Government, via the State Department/Radio Free Asia/Open Technology Fund. So are other projects like Tor Project, Mailvelope, crypto.cat, NoScript, and many more. I don't think that being associated with the US Government automatically disqualifies your contributions of free software.
.hc Robert J. Hansen: > A while ago, the fellows at the Guardian Project released Java bindings > for GnuPG. A project's come along where I could make use of them, and > thought I'd give them a spin. I was quite surprised to discover that, > as of this writing, they don't even build. > > The offender seems to be jUnit. The gnupg-for-java code uses a lot of > imports like "junit.framework", and the current jUnit drops everything > in the org.junit namespace. On top of that, old test methods like > TestSuite from jUnit 3.8 have been deprecated in favor of Suite, from > more modern jUnits. > > This doesn't appear to be hard work. The test suite is about 250 lines > of code, most of it fairly clear. If you know Java and would like to > contribute to GnuPG but don't quite know where, this would seem to be an > excellent "bite-sized" project to take on. > > > > (If anyone's wondering why I'm not doing it: following my long-standing > rule, I don't contribute code patches for either GnuPG or Enigmail. > Although I'm not an employee of the U.S. government, I have a lot of > friends and family who are. If I contributed code, some people would > make a ruckus about how GnuPG was now 'tainted'. To prevent this, and > to maintain the community's trust in GnuPG, I don't touch the code.) > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x9F0FE587374BBE81 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
