On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Alex Fernandez wrote:
Hi Paul,
Sorry for the delay; there is a bit of a backlog after the summer
Holidays. I am reviewing your submission on behalf of Savannah, and
there are a few issues with it:
* 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).
* 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.
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. ;)
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.
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).
regards,
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