Re: [Savannah-help-public] Fwd: question on GPL

2006-01-03 Thread Gaius Mulley
Sylvain Beucler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, We do not, at Savannah, know if a package should be GNU or not. When a packages wants to be GNU, we first review it for non-GNU hosting, then we point the user to http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html . Then the GNU Evaluation team, and

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Fwd: question on GPL

2005-12-29 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Hi, We do not, at Savannah, know if a package should be GNU or not. When a packages wants to be GNU, we first review it for non-GNU hosting, then we point the user to http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html . Then the GNU Evaluation team, and eventually RMS, decide if and how the package can be

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Fwd: question on GPL

2005-12-29 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Gaius, Lots of complications here. First, as Sylvain hypothesized, it's not necessary that every dependency of a GNU project be GNU. So you can use p2c in modula2 and modula2 can still potentially be dubbed GNU. That's fine. Second, if you are essentially maintaining p2c now, and want it

[Savannah-help-public] Fwd: question on GPL

2005-12-27 Thread Brett Smith
Hello, We recently received the mail below at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. It more concerns GNU policy than actual license questions, though, so I thought it would be best to pass it on to you. Do you think you might be able to provide a reply? If not, let me know, and I'll see who else I should try to