On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:37:38PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > FWIW, I fully agree with what John said, plus: > > Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote: > > > > Savannah, as many other sites, it's a forge, with a big different, we > > only host free software. All the software that you can find here it > > was reviewed and verified that doesn't have any license problem which > > include dependencies. > > This implies that the user can be absolutely sure that by using > software hosted at Savannah he is certain that he's using only free > software. This is a fallacy. While you check carefully all projects > during the approval stage, nothing prevents a project accidantially or > even deliberately making their software non-free or (build-)depending > on proprietary software at any time after it is created. > > Of course I'm not saying that there should be a brigade to regularly > double-check all projects; given the scarce resources this is close to > impossible. The question is not to create this illusion.
The brigade is really our users. Some of them reported non-free software hosted at Savannah in the past (such as kqemu before it become free), and we initiated discussion with the project maintainer. -- Sylvain
