Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of mdf2iso - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I am waiting for an answer from you.

If within one week I still do not get a reply, I will remove your
project. You will still be able to register it again once you have the
time to deal with the registration issues.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:14:13PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> 
> > salsan <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: mdf2iso
> > System name: mdf2iso
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > MDF2ISO is a very simple utility to convert an Alcohol 120% bin image to 
> > the standard ISO-9660 format.
> > 
> > http://freshmeat.net/redir/mdf2iso/54376/url_zip/mdf2iso.zip
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Your source code also lack a copyright notice.
> 
> In order to release your project properly and unambiguously under the
> GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy statements
> at the beginning of every file of source code.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
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Sylvain