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 <[email protected]> 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 > -- > http://www.gnu.org > http://www.april.org > http://www.lolica.org >
