Fwd: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of courseforge address@hidden

[mathieu]

Le ven 15 mar 2002 à 18h57, Jean-Pierre Messager a écrit :
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, mathieu wrote:
> Le jeu 14 mar 2002 à 19h14, address@hidden a écrit :
> >
> > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden,
> > address@hidden
> >
> >
> > CourseForge.org Webmaster <address@hidden> described the
> > package as follows:
> > License: fdl
> > Other License:
> > Package: courseforge
> > System name: courseforge
> > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> >
> > CourseForge is a documentary project that intend to help
> > people writing and/or giving courses about free software or
> > general computer science issues by providing pedagogical
> > materials such as slides, manuals, exercises book. Such
> > documentation must be under a FSF-compliant license (GFDL
> > preferred) and use free tools and formats (SGML, XML, TeX,
> > ...).
> >
> > By now courses on the courseforge repository exists only
> > in french, some english translations are on the way.
> > We\'d like to make it a savannah/GNU project since it
> > is related to GNU software projects.
> >
> > It already exists and you can see it at http://www.courseforge.org
>
> Isnt the name courseforge a too explicit reference to sourceforge ?
>
> Cannot it be a legal problem ?

It could be, anyway we don't think it will. courseforge.org is
in place for monthes and has been widely announced and we haven't
be contacted on such issue by VA/{Linux|Software}.

Anyway, if they will, we'll examine closely legal issues to
decide to change our name or domain or not. In any case
savannah should not be concerned by protests from VA.

If you feel more comfortable by changing the name, we could
give this project another one on savannah while keeping
courseforge.org for the main site.

all the best

        Jean-Pierre Messager (courseforge's webmaster)

P.S. Feel free to continue this mail exchange in french.

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