Follow-up Comment #11, task #10359 (project administration): Hi Sameer,
I would like you to not only comply with the letter of the requirements, but to understand the spirit of it. We want to be sure that Savannah users can enjoy their free software without any worries of its legality or its provenance, if possible, and so we admins and developers have to perform a bit of due diligence <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence> to make sure that everything is legal and clear. In practice this means making you as a developer work a little bit more than other free hosting services, it often takes longer, but it should provide a better experience to our users and developers. With regards to mptt, could you provide the original LICENSE <http://code.google.com/p/django-mptt/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE> file? From the linked file you can see that a requirement to borrow mptt (or substantial portions of it) is to include the LICENSE file. This small oversight might put all users and developers (including you) and maybe even Savannah in the wrong end of a technical (but clearly unwilling) copyright infringement. So it is with any other imported libraries: it is important to know the license and copyright holder to avoid any stupid disputes further down the road, something which might be very damaging to the project. So I will have to do an in-depth review of the code before I approve it. I am not sure about including $AUTHOR$ and $YEAR$ only in releases, since anyone can checkout a copy at any time. I have to request the wisdom of other Savannah admins about it. Sorry for the rant, and let me know when the code is ready for review! _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?10359> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
