Gene is unfinished and non-functional at this moment in time. Unless you are a software developer, you cannot download anything yet.
Gene is a piece of genealogy software; it allows people to organise their family tree on a computer. Once the family tree has been imported into gene, "closest relationships" can be found and sections of the family tree can be printed out. In addition, the family tree can be exported to HTML (webpages) and placed on the World Wide Web.
Features (coming soon):
Gene is released under the GNU General Public License. This allows you to use the software, modify the software and give or sell it to other people so long as the source code is always included.
Because Gene is pre-alpha at the current time, there are no binary packages or source tarballs available. The source is available through CVS using the following command:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/software/gene co gene
You will need GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake, as well as a C compile chain, in order to compile this software.
Prequisites:
Gene is Free Software. This means that you, as a user, have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Free refers to freedom, not price; you can make a charge for improving the software (within the scope of the GNU General Public License) so long as all other users of the software keep these same basic freedoms. For more information, see the GNU definition of Free Software and why software should be free.
Free software is frequently more reliable than proprietary software, because anybody who can improve it is free to do so.
If you want to find more software that gives you these freedoms, you may find the GNU Project webpage an interesting place to start. The GNU project was started by Richard Stallman in order to create a totally free operating system. This operating system, called GNU/Linux, is now finished (though it is constantly being improved and more applications written for it). You may want to try it out; check out this page at linux.com for more information.
This document is Copyright (c) Andrew Sobala 2002.
Gene is Copyright (c) Andrew Sobala 2002. Distributed under the GNU General Public License.