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End Software Patents project comes out swinging

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT
Four months after being announced, the End Software Patents project (ESP) is launching a new Web site with arguments for economists, computer scientists, lawyers, and lay peoplemen about why they should support the project. Prominent on the site is the publication of a report on the state of patents in the United States during 2006-07, and a scholarship contest that will award $10,000 for "for the best paper on the effects of the patentability of software and business methods under US law."

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vala-gen-project(1)						   USER COMMANDS					       vala-gen-project(1)

NAME

       vala-gen-project - generate the and automake skeleton for your vala project

SYNOPSIS

       vala-gen-project [OPTION...] [NAME]

DESCRIPTION

       Vala project generator is a little gui or command line utility that creates an automake project skeletoni vala program.

       It can be used without specifying a project name, so that a gtk+ gui will be presented or directly from the command line.

OPTIONS

       -?, --help		      Show help options

       -p, --projectdir=DIRECTORY     Project directory

       -t, --type=TYPE		      Project TYPE: gtk+, console

       -l, --license=TYPE	      License TYPE: gpl2, gpl3, lgpl2, lgpl2.1, lgpl3, apache2, artistic

       --version		      Display version number

       -a, --author=NAME	      Author name

       -e, --email=EMAIL	      Author email address

EXAMPLES

       Create a gtk+ project with a gpl2 license and the name valatest

	      vala-gen-project -t gtk+ -l gpl2 valatest

EXIT STATUS

       vala-gen-project returns a zero exist status if it succeed.  Non zero is returned in case of failure.

AUTHOR

       Andrea Del Signore (sejerpz (at) tin.it)

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       valac(1)

version 0.1.0							 December 24, 2008					       vala-gen-project(1)

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