Re: Spam message when using CVS for webpages

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 18 2023, Ian Kelling wrote:

> I definitely admire the ingenuity to offer source code in more
> places. However, I'm pretty confident Savannah webpages are a sufficient
> place to satisfy the AGPL requirement of offering source, and adding
> output like this to command line operations where the only expected
> output is information related to the operation is undesirable for
> various reasons and will very likely cause breakage for scripts and
> tools which make calls to Savannah.

I think the message should only be printed when accessing the server
interactively.  While Savannah servers are not meant for interactive
use, you _can_ access them with plain ssh, which gives you the login
banner, and adding the blurb from sv_membersh here would not disturb any
valid use.

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