Re: [Gforge-devel] gforge

[Tim Perdue]

Matheiu, please see the attached message at the bottom. 
address@hidden was contacted about this 6-7 weeks ago with no response.

As far as CVS, we have no problem moving it off of savannah if it's a 
problem.

Tim


Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In almost all files I checked in your project CVS, correct
> licensing/copyright information is lacking.
>
> These informations are very important and you was told at registration
> to take care about it.
> Please, conform to our policy or we would be forced to deactivate your
> project. 
>
> (See "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" in the GPL)
>
>
> Also, would you like to state the meaning of the following?
>
>  *  user.php - allows non-free software to be linked safely to GForge
>  *
>  *  THIS FILE IS RELEASED UNDER THE LGPL
>  *
>  *  ANY MODIFICATIONS MUST BE ALSO RELEASED UNDER LGPL
>
> Understand that until you completely rewrite gforge in LGPL, linking
> proprietary software to gforge is a serious license violation. 
>
> Anyway, this statement is confusing, please replace it with the text
> proposed in the LGPL.
>
>
> Regards,

12/22/2002 address@hidden message

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Can anyone at FSF advise us on how best to handle "mixed copyright" GPL 
software? GForge is a fork of SourceForge, which was copyright VA Linux, 
and the new code is largely copyrighted by myself.

Tim


Tim Perdue <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks. Is there anyone who could advise us on the "Mixed copyright"
> issue? Of course, much of the code is Copyright VA Linux, but I am
> not granting them copyright to all of the new material that has been
> rewritten/added.


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<address@hidden> should be able to resolve licensing issues.

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