Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of EasyChat - the Flash chat

[Hugo Gayosso]

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"Nicolas S." <address@hidden> writes:

> >  >Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>    Hi,
> >>
> >>    Could you please register your project again and provide a URL to
> >>  the existing software ? Also note that you may prefer to use php3 over 
> >> php4
> >  > because php4 restricts your freedom as a developer.
> >>
> >>    Thanks in advance,
> >
> >On top of this, I would like to add that Flash is proprietary
> >software, so this will make it not acceptable to be part of the GNU
> >Project, maybe not even as part of non-gnu.
> >
> >Greetings,
> 
> Hi,
> So could you indicate me another free-license for my project ?
> Thanks a lot.

The license for your project is fine, it can be the GNU GPL and your
package will be Free Software, the issue is that your package can't be
part of the GNU system because it relies on proprietary software
(Flash).


For a list of software licenses:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

On a side note:

Here is a very good example on why calling the operating system just
"Linux" is misleading (I am not saying that you mentioned "Linux"),
while in reality there is an operating system called GNU
(http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html), the one you
applied so your package could be part of it.  That's one more reason
why we ask the people to refer to the system GNU/Linux to give credit
to kernel.


Thanks for your offer to GNU anyways.


Greetings,
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Hugo Gayosso
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