[Savannah-register-public] [task #5082] Submission of Hindawi Vernacular Programming System

[Sebastian Wieseler]

Follow-up Comment #4, task #5082 (project administration):

Hello.


At first, "THIS DOCUMENT IS DISTRIBUTED  UNDER  GNU-GPL.V2 / GNU-LGPL.V2"

Do you really mean Document or Software?


At second, 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.



Furthermore "Hindawi is free open source software" - do you mean "OpenSource"
or "FreeSoftware" here? You cannot mix it.

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, please see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.


Then "used for non-commercial purposes without paying fees" - the GPL/LGPL
allow people also to use it for commercial purposes, so it's useless to limit
people here.


But your source code lacks license/copyright notices totally.

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.

In addition, if you haven't already, 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.


Regards,

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