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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Quantum Coreworld - savannah.no
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Sylvain Beucler |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Quantum Coreworld - savannah.nongnu.org |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:27:22 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
Is there a new version with fixes now?
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Sylvain
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 11:45:08AM -0400, Alexander (Sasha) Wait wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 18:02, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Can you add explicit copyright and license notices to these documents?
> > If verbosity is an issue, check
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html for a smaller notice that
> > refers to the main document (if you have one).
> >
> OK
>
> > Moreover, you cannot include coreworld-standard.txt at Savannah until
> > you are sure that you can distribute it under the GNU GPL.
> >
> I will contact the copyright holders (if I can). The original
> "standard" was posted to Usenet without a copyright notice. One might
> think it is in the public domain but I am not a lawyer.
>
> > I see a small non-standard GDFL notice:
> > "with the Invariant Sections being just Philosophy and Acknowledgements"
> >
> > The word 'just' should not be included; the GFDL permits to add
> > Invariant section in future releases, and it could be misinterpreted.
> >
> > Also, you do not need to explicitely cite Acknowledgements, as it is
> > already covered by section 4.K of the GNU FDL.
> >
> > Each part of the document should carry a small copyright+license
> > notice as described in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html
> >
> OK
>
> > Last, you need to include a full copy of the GNU FDL along with your
> > document. The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.
> > For example, to learn why a copy of the GPL must be included with
> > every copy of the code, for example, go to
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude
> >
> > Don't feel sorry for adding that document, it is my job to point to
> > good licensing practices ;)
> >
> Thanks for all the information!
>
> > Elfyn is working on Arch, and we already began discussing the problem
> > Arch brings (namely, the fact that the repository is accessible by
> > SFTP, with less repository protection than with CVS).
> >
> > I won't hide you that we have other issues with higher priority at the
> > moment, but be sure we are interested in supporting Arch :)
>
> It's good to hear you may support Arch in the future. I'm writing a
> document about "Managing the Quantum Coreworld Project with GNU Arch". I
> hope it will be generic enough to be useful to others. Early draft at:
>
> *
> http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Managing_20the_20Quantum_20Coreworld_20Project_20with_20GNU_20Arch