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December 5th 2009 in GNU Savannah item 9944: "Submission of Argile programming language compiler" >Do I need to specify "(see the AUTHORS file distributed along with >this software)" everywhere ? or is "the Argile authors" sufficient ? >(some files do not have this precision in their copyright notices as >it seemed pedantic) You do not need to specify the "see the AUTHORS file..." anywhere, in README file (With alredy added notices in the file listing) are enough. >I also changed the license of the runtime library from zlib to LGPL >rather than GPL because I think that forcing GPLization of programs >written in this language could scare a lot of programmers away (it is >a new programming language, and no other compiler for it exist yet). >However, I am open to suggestions. To copyleft or no to copyleft the run time libraryes is up to you, the hosting requirements do not talk about that. so I think than the hosting requirement are meet but I can't approve the project. An administrator will do a final review and approve the project if all is ok. In GNU project we prefer freedom to popularity. Enforcing the programs to be free will give away the propietary software programmers but no the free software ones, this at some degree a boost to free software. Maybe even some propietary developers will release their code under a free licence to be able to use the program (Argile in this case) this alredy happen with CLISP and GNU Readline. These ideas are well explained in the RMS's essay "Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism" (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html). For more information about the CLIPS case see http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL. Item status changes: Status -> Need admin Percent complente -> 90% -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREIAAYFAkscHQkACgkQZ4DA0TLic4iWkwCcDHP6+CPO6NNC77ddMM606HjB 1wkAnA6vHrEaGkcp23NUyvjsy6Lkj5Bg =FxTC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?9944> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
