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Re: [Gforge-devel] gforge


From: Tim Perdue
Subject: Re: [Gforge-devel] gforge
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:35:56 -0600
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Mathieu Roy wrote:
Tim Perdue <address@hidden> said:


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.


The first point (licensing/copyright notes missing) is a problem in
any way, it should be considered as a problem also outside
Savannah. Basically, files without these are not clearly covered by
the licenses picked, someone could argue on this in trial.
It's an issue in any case, but if you're not hosted by Savannah -which
cares about protecting software freedom it hosts- it's up to you.
Second point, if you link a proprietary software against gforge, as
gforge is currently partly GPL, it's a license violation inside and outside Savannah.
Thoses problems are not in fact really Savannah-specific. They cannot
simply vanish by removing gforge from the Savannah CVS.

Yes, I was hoping we could get some good advice on bringing all copyright issues up to 100% standard form. I have been told that a mixed copyright is "harder to defend".

It's not clear to me how you handle the files which are both VA Linux/Other copyright, and how to systematically eliminate all the VA Linux stuff without it poisoning the whole package with a mixed copyright.

Some people have said to remove all VA Linux copyrights in the headers, but I don't see how you can do that, when indeed they are copyrighted by VA.

The VA-copyrighted stuff accounts for < 20%. Probably 80% is rewritten and copyrighted by me and a handful of other people at this point.

Tim





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