[task #9882] Submission of manumission

[Paolo Bonzini-2]

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                 Summary: Submission of manumission
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: wrichards
            Submitted on: Fri 06 Nov 2009 09:33:52 PM GMT
         Should Start On: Fri 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 AM GMT
   Should be Finished on: Mon 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 AM GMT
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10384> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10384>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *manumission*
* System Name:  *mms*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later

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==== Description: ====
A command-line utility which creates 'chm' (HTML Help) files.
The goal is to allow creation of cross-platform help files, using an
extremely simple command-line user interface.
Written in Bigloo scheme.



==== Other Software Required: ====
Bigloo compiler (GPL v2) http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/



==== Tarball URL: ====
/home/wayne/tmp/manumission.tar.gz






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[Paolo Bonzini-2]

Follow-up Comment #1, task #9882 (project administration):

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November 6th 2009 in Savannah item #9882: "Submission of manumission"

Hi, I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in
Savannah. Note that I am not a member of the Savannah administration
team. I only try to help you to fix the remaining issues in this
project submission that I could find. If all hosting requirements for
Savannah are met, an administrator will approve this submission.

Please include a (perhaps temporary) URL pointing to the source
code. You can forward the code to me by email or attach it to this
tracker but the current "URL" is void since it specifies no protocol
and no machine.

We wish to review your source code, even if it is not functional, to
catch potential legal issues early.

For example, to release your program properly under the GNU GPL you
must include a copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements at
the beginning of every copyrightable file, usually any file more than
10 lines long.  This is explained in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.  Our review would help
catch potential omissions such as these.

Note that sending code to our repositories _is_ a release, since the
code will then be publicly available through anonymous access.
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Additional Item Attachment, task #9882 (project administration):

File name: manumission.tar.gz             Size:102 KB


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Follow-up Comment #2, task #9882 (project administration):


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November 7th 2009 in Savannah item #9882: "Submission of manumission"

Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.  Would you agree
to upgrade your project license to the "GNU GPL v3 or later"?

It will be important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to that
new version. If you don't put this in the files now, the only way to
port your program to the next version of the GPL would be to ask each
and every copyright holder, and that may be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish. If you have
concerns about "GNU GPL v3 or later", we'd be happy to address them
too.

For licence under the GNU General Public Licence 3 or any later
version follow the instructions at the Apendix of that licence. In
short: put this header in *each* of your files:

;; file name -- short description of wath file does
;;
;; Copyright (C) 2009 Caliber Technology LLC
;;
;; This file is part of manumission
;;
;; manumission is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.
;;
;; manumission is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with manumission.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Follow-up Comment #3, task #9882 (project administration):

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November 10th 2009 in Savannh item #9882: "Submission of manumission"

There is a last problem: files in "samples" directory need Copyrigth and
licence notices, i think than project is able for approval but fix
this issue as soon as possible and before releasing a taball.

Note than i am not an administrator and i can't approve projects. Wait
an adminstrator response.
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Follow-up Comment #4, task #9882 (project administration):

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November 11th 2009 in GNU Savannah item #9882: "Submission of
manumission"

Sebastian <sgerhardt> noticed me another problem: File index.html in
"sample" directory says "The goal of this project is to supply an
open-source alternative to the Microsoft Help Workshop.".

Savannah-hosted should't talk about open-source but free software. See
the requirements page:
https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php.

Can you change your project goal to be a free alternative to the
Microsoft Help Workshop instead of a open source one?. See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.
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Update of task #9882 (project administration):

                  Status:                    None => Done                  
        Percent Complete:                      0% => 100%                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                

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Follow-up Comment #5:

After being reviewed by Mario, this project is ready for approval.



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Update of task #9882 (project administration):

             Open/Closed:                  Closed => Open                  

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Follow-up Comment #6:

I've approved your project--welcome on board! :-)

You'll receive a mail notification with further instructions shortly.

--
Happy hacking!


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Follow-up Comment #7, task #9882 (project administration):

I'll need to add a dependency to this project, and this may have some bearing
on the GPL version.  I need to incorporate code from "lzx_compress", either by
adding the source (preferred), or by dependency on the library.  That project
is licensed under the "LGPL" v2.1.  I've attached the lzx_compress source.
Would there be a problem with incorporating this code as-is in my project?

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Follow-up Comment #8, task #9882 (project administration):

lzx.tar.gz is attached

(file #19038)
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Follow-up Comment #9, task #9882 (project administration):

Hi,

the LGPL is compatible to the GPL. In addition, it grants you as a recipient
the right to relicense the software under GPL.

What might be problematic is the "version 2.1 only". This is why Savannah is
somewhat insisting all GPL projects use the "any later" clause.

However my interpretation of the license text is that you have the freedom to
relicense under any GPL version if you choose to switch to GPL.

> 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library.  To do this,
you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so that they refer
to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2, instead of to this
License.  (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General
Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you
wish.)

So I'd say you can incorporate it into your project, switching it to GPLv3 or
any later in the process. If another admin thinks I am mistaken, please speak
up.

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