> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:48 PM
> To: Free Software Foundation
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Cvswebedit needs to be made GPL/open source. Any
> volunteers?
>
> On Tuesday 11 July 2000, at 2 h 0, the keyboard of Free
> Software Foundation
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If you GPL the program, we at gnu.org would be happy to
> provide services to
> > help your development.
>
> Well, the original poster apparently believed that he *had*
> to transfer the
> program to the FSF in order to put it under the GPL, which is
> obviously wrong.
>
> > In fact, we are working right now on setting up
> > services similar to those of of sourceforge, but targeted
> for the free
> > software community (sourceforge is only targeted for the open source
> > community).
>
> Could you precise what it means? 99 % of the projects at
> SourceForge are free
> software, according to
> <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html> and most are GPL.
>
> This really looks like FUD against SourceForge, but using a spurious
> difference between "free" and "open source".
>
> I am not sure what this service will be ready, though.
>
> SourceForge works today but don't worry, their code is free
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/alexandria/>, you can use it :-)
>
Although this is getting off-topic... I'll respond.
By their own reckoning
( http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=13 )
less than 95% are OSI Approved.
And as <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html> points out,
OSI approval is *not* the same as GPL.
There are many projects on Sourceforge that use licenses that are very
definitely NOT
compatible with the GNU GPL.
Mike
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