Follow-up Comment #4, task #10496 (project administration): Hi,
Paul responded on the savannah-register-public mailing list, so I am including his replies here and answering too. * You speak about "Linux", but we prefer that you use "GNU/Linux": it gives credit to the GNU project besides the Linux kernel. Read the Hosting requirements <https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php> for more details. _Oops, yes._ * Some documentation files (NEWS, README, Changelog...) lack the required GPL header. _The ChangeLog file is deprecated iirc. We'll remove it. For stuff like a README file, I'm not eniterly sure it makes sense to add a GPL header - it would detract from the immediacy of the content. Further, I do not anticipate ever caring about copyright infringement on such files, and anyway it should already be clear from the COPYING file that these are GPLed (the header is added to more important files, like C source, just to ensure readers can't miss the fact)._ For the README file, you can always add the license header at the bottom so as to keep it readable. Keep in mind that we have to worry not only about copyright infringement, but also about protecting all users of the package. Having clear copyright assignments helps make the status of each file legally sound. * There are a few PNG files in there, but it's not clear where they come from. The best solution is usually to state in the README or some similar file the license for each one. _You're probably looking at a 'make dist' tarball, and the PNGs come from the 'Dia' files in the same directory, I think._ Probably, so these aren't needed? In this case they can just be removed safely, right? * Please upload a new tarball with these issues solved, and let us know when it's ready for a new review, OK? _Ok, that will take a week or so - am on holidays. ;)_ Good for you, the task will be left open. * Finally, you say that Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra; while forks are sometimes necessary (and GNU Zebra seems to have stopped development in 2005), it might be better to help the original package move along. Have you contacted the authors of GNU Zebra, and/or the GNU project, to see if they would like some contributors? _Yes we did. We were in contact with RMS and the FSF about this even before the fork - which was quite a while ago. The original GNU project is mostly dead in terms of community and development, relative to Quagga. Unfortunately, they were not willing to hand the project on._ _As per Karl, things just are as they are in this regard._ That is fine then. _I'll try address your issues soon. I will probably submit a tarfile without the auto-generated bits next time (maintainer clean kind of thing)._ If you think this can take too long you are free to close this task and resubmit when you are ready; whatever suits you better. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?10496> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/