Re: [Savannah-hackers] new project / project was submitted

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.


While you added a license notice to most of your files, some problems
subsist.

First, the address of the FSF has changed, and is now:

  59 Temple Place, Suite 330
  Boston, MA  02111-1307
  USA

Please update your files.  
An updated version of the GPL can also be found here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt


The files should also contain a copyright notice. You headers mention
the copyright holder, but it is better to use a standard copyright
notice as describe at http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_8.html


Some files (I think they are data) are not clearly licensed. It
would be good to add a copyright and license notices to them as
well. If it is not possible due to the file format, it should be
clearly mentioned in a file located in the same directory.


We would like you to license your documentation either under the GNU
Free Documentation License, or under a GPL-compatible license. This
implies giving the preferred source for modifying it. As it seems to
be generated using MS Word, you have to switch to a non-propriatery
format, such as OpenOffice's.


Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software
movement, not projects of the Open Source movement.

We are careful about ethical issues and insist on producing software
that is not dependent on proprietary software.

While Open Source as defined by its founders means something pretty
close to Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.  For more
information, read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html


Also, "Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system
that we like to refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize
the ideals of the Free Software movement.

Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS
to GNU/Linux?

For more information, see
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html


You mention Z88 is freeware. 'freeware' and 'free software' are
two different concepts, as described in
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Freeware


Please remove GIF image files from your project and replace them
with an other format (such as PNG or JPEG).

Because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW compression
algorithm which are used when making GIF files, it's impossible to
have free software to generate proper GIFs.  They also apply to the
compress program.

For more information read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html


Keep also in mind that OpenMotif is not free software. Lesstif,
however, is perfectly OK.


You registered both z88 and z88free. Can you tell me what is your
system name you want?


Last, you mentionned it could be an interesting program for GNU. Do
you want your project to be evaluated to become a GNU package (if
approved)?


And that should be all.
That was quite a long mail :)


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.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain


> Project Admins:
> Frank Rieg <address@hidden> ;
> 
> Registration Date:
> Fri 01/23/2004 at 06:37
> 
> System Group Name:
> z88free
> 
> Submitted Description: Z88 - a free Finite Elements Analysis program
> for statical analysises. It features two solvers, a mesh generator,
> import of DXF and Cosmos files, computing of displacements, stresses
> and nodal forces and output to files, CRT and plotters. Z88 features
> 20 different element types and should be well suited both for students
> and mechanical and civil engineers. Z88 is completely written in C and
> the LINUX version uses in addition X11,Xt and Xm calls, the upcoming
> new plot program OpenGl- calls, too. Z88 presents a GUI with online
> help along with a 200 pg pdf manual. See http://z88.uni-bayreuth.de
> 
> Required software:
> OpenMotif or Lesstif Mesa
> 
> Other comments:
> 
> i have got an answer from Savannah two weeks ago but i am not quite
> sure that i have understood it. There was told something of security
> of the Savannah pages.

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:31:16AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Dear Savannah-Hackers,
> 
> i've got an email from Sylvain Beucler regarding pending projects.
> 
> Some months ago i've suggested a new LINUX project, i guess with the title 
> "z88" or 
> "z88free". This means a finite elements system for civil engineering, 
> machinery 
> engineering, aerospace and ship building. This program in completelly written 
> in C and 
> uses Motif and OpenGL. The version 11.0 for LINUX/UNIX is stable and 
> OpenSource.
> 
> Perhaps an interesting project for GNU.
> 
> regards
> 
> Prof. Frank Rieg
> chair for engineering design and CAD
> University of Bayreuth, Germany