[Savannah-register-public] [task #5852] Submission of zipbackup

[Stephan Peijnik]

Follow-up Comment #3, task #5852 (project administration):

Hi,

Now that I've got the tarball of your project I'm evaluating the project you
submitted for approval in Savannah. There are a few problems which I noticed
whilst reviewing your project. Descriptions of these problems can be found
below.


First of all, licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.  Would
you agree to license your project under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be important for
all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3. If you don't put this in the
files now, the only way to port your program to GPL v3 would be to ask each
and every copyright holder, and that may be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish. If you have concerns
about "GNU GPL v2 or later", we'd be happy to address them too.


Secondly, in order to release your project properly and unambiguously under
the GNU GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy statements
at the beginning of every copyrightable file, usually any file more than 10
lines long.

In addition, please include a copy of the plain text version of the GPL,
available from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt, into a file named
"COPYING".

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.  To learn why a
copy of the GPL must be included with every copy of the code, for example,
see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude.


If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide us
with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we will
reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

To help us better keep track of your registration, please use the tracker's
web interface following the link below. Do not reply directly, the
registration process is not driven by e-mail, and we will not receive such
replies.

Regards.

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