Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] php and savannah?

2008-12-22 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Hi Karl, On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:01:07PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: Looking at http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?8900, I find myself wondering about hosting typical php projects on savannah since the php license is regrettably incompatible with the GPL. This particular project says it's

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Savannah's position on Java implementations

2008-12-22 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:27:58PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: For example, what would be the decision on runs on version 6 of Java? The general criteria is the same as always: it needs to run using only free software. In practice, what that means for Java is that it should run (and

[Savannah-hackers-public] Sebastian is a now a new project member

2008-12-22 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Hi Sebastian, Given your involvement in reviewing project submissions we added you to the 'administration' group. Welcome :) Incidentally you now can assign tasks to you in the tracker. -- Sylvain

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] php and savannah?

2008-12-22 Thread Yavor Doganov
Sylvain Beucler wrote: http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/PhpIssues The main issue was not the PHP license itself, it was the fact PEAR was using it for some of their own independant PHP libraries. So, the incompatibility with the GPL is just one of the problems (which alone is enough for

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] php and savannah?

2008-12-22 Thread Karl Berry
beuc I don't understand why you make a distinction between command line applications and web-based applications. I was thinking that the license of a project written in PHP had to be compatible with PHPL. http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/PhpIssues Ah. The crucial thing I was

[Savannah-hackers-public] projects needing admin

2008-12-22 Thread Karl Berry
Category: Project Approval = Approved Projects to be Reviewed Sebastian -- I think it's better to change the status to need admin than to change the category. I think the above category is for projects which need to be reviewed after approval? And those should be left open, I guess.

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] projects needing admin

2008-12-22 Thread Nicodemo Alvaro
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org wrote: Category: Project Approval = Approved Projects to be Reviewed Sebastian -- I think it's better to change the status to need admin than to change the category. I think the above category is for projects which need