[lwip-users] Re: Status on CVS on my behalf (Was Re: [lwip] Ping)

[Scott Robinson]

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SourceForge is up now and I'm synched to it. Can I submit patches or should
I continue holding off?

Scott.

* Leon Woestenberg translated into ASCII [Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:03:24PM +=
0200][<address@hidden>]
> Hello Adam and audience,
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> status on "neutral" place CVS on my behalf:
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> I copied the modified BSD license to the letter, changed the copyright ye=
ars
> to
> reflect 2002 as well in order to register at savannah (awaiting
> confirmation).
> I have imported the files to Sourceforge. Why? A breakdown of history:
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> A few weeks ago I have tried to add the project as-is (i.e. your CVS
> archive) to
> savannah two times:
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> 1) Chose the BSD license
> It was rejected. They said "your license looks more like the modified BSD
> license".
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> 2). Chose the modified BSD license.
> It was rejected. They said "You have to modify the license to match the
> modified BSD license".
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> I totally agree with Adam that the license reads like the modified BSD
> license, with
> the exception that "contributors" are mentioned in clause 3 not to use th=
eir
> own name to
> endorse/market/whatever the product. I think savannah falls on that...
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> I have asked Adam whether changing the license a bit was allowed and Adam
> agreed on that;
> I have since registered the project at savannah again (takes 2 days says
> experience) using a
> to-the-letter-modified-BSD-license and imported this into sourceforge.net
> already.
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> > After inspecting the license stuff at both sites, I don't think that the
> > current lwIP license is a problem. The reference to the "modified BSD
> > license" actually means the current lwIP license. The unmodified BSD
> > license is the 4-clause license that includes the "advertisment clause".
> > So I think we are OK.
> >
> Savannah thinks not.
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> /QUOTE:
> We will not hosts projects licensed under non-GPL compatible
> license. Maybe you forgot to update your license file in your
> tarball but you agreed to switch to the modified BSD.
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> If so, please resubmit (sorry) with a statement about it and hopefully
> a tarball updated :)
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> Sorry for the delay,
> /UNQUOTE
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> >  I have already set up an lwIP project at Sourceforge, but we can easily
> > drop out if we choose to go for Savannah. Leon is in the process of
> > registering the project as Savannah.
> >
> > What do you think? I am more inclined towards Savannah right now.
> >
> I think indeed await Savannah acceptation and proceed from there. In the
> meantime, I'll proceed with both sourceforge and savannah up to the point
> where we decide.
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> Regards,
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> Leon.
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