[Savannah-register-public] Re: [task #9254] Submission of records

[Ashvin Goel]

Xavier,

I agree with you. Please make the changes to the licensing as required
to comply the site's licensing requirements.

Thanks
Ashvin

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Xavier Maillard <address@hidden> wrote:
> [CC'ing original author so I am speaking under his control]
>
> Hi ashvin,
>
> I submitted records on savannah's forge a few days ago. To do so,
> I had to submit a tarball of the records distribution. The
> submitted release was the latest known that is to say 1.5.0.
>
> Today, I received the following message from savannah's admins.
> So It would be really nice if you could answer all these
> questions to clarify the situation. If you were to answer
> positively to these two blocking questions, I could make the
> modifications as soon as the project would be accepted. If not, I
> guess I should get rid of the blocking parts and/or I should
> probably fork under a new name (which I do not want).
>
>   we can't appprove the project as it is now.
>   You will need to ask the original developer whether he permits to make the
>   necessary changes. If he doesn't, you will have to replace the blocking 
> parts
>   by works you wrote alone.
>
>   The two parts in particular are:
>
>   ---
>   Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
>   this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
>   entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
>   notice identical to this one, and provided that the privacy of any reader of
>   the resulting derived work is respected. In particular is it strictly
>   forbidden to make this documentation available on a World Wide Web server
>   which deals cookies. However, keeping access statistics is allowed.
>   ---
>
>   This condition is too stringent to qualify as a free software documentation.
>
> I agree with that.
>
>   A couple of files just have a "This file is under the Gnu Public License."
>   line. This is delicate because it is ambiguous (which version, 1,2 or 3?)
>   Remember that the "or any later" phrase is necessary, too.
>
> Good catch.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>        Xavier
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