Re: [Savannah-help-public] Fwd: question on GPL

[Gaius Mulley]

Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> We do not, at Savannah, know if a package should be GNU or not.
> 
> When a packages wants to be GNU, we first review it for non-GNU
> hosting, then we point the user to
> http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html .
> 
> Then the GNU Evaluation team, and eventually RMS, decide if and how
> the package can be GNU.
> 
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, I am the maintainer of a GNU package which is
> based on non-GNU software from various sources, so I guess it's ok to
> include p2c in the Modula-2 package.
> 
> Gaius, you need to ask confirmation to the GNU Eval team anyway, and
> talk with them in order to get your Modula-2 frontend reviewed for GNU
> approval. I add them in Cc :)

Hi Sylvain,

many thanks for your reply - I'll check out evaluation.html. Also
thanks for your comments on p2c and your experience with integrating
non-gnu project sources into a gnu project

regards,
Gaius