On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:43:48PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > 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.
Though I agree this could be said differently in the intro text :) -- Sylvain
