Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Pattern Template Library

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Although the author intent to release Petal under the GNU LGPL is
made clear by the copyright notice included in two files of the distribution,
there are a few things missing to make it Free Software. The copyright 
notice says that a copy of the GNU LGPL is available in the distribution
but I was not able to find it. Other files do not have a copyright notice
and therefore are not covered by the GNU LGPL. 

        Could you please correct these problems and submit your project
again ? 

        Thanks for your patience,

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address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Sreekant Sreedharan <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: lgpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Pattern Template Library
 > System name: petal
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Purpose and Summary
 > -------------------
 >  The Pattern Template Library (PETAL) is a template library implementing 
 > common design patterns. The library is based on the generic programming 
 > methodology adopted by STL.
 > 
 >  The impetus to its design is a need to be able to standardize the 
 > representation of patterns, and a desire to implement them quickly, with 
 > ease. It helps the practitioner of object design analyze, express and most 
 > importantly, grasp it better.  The simplicity of its implementation should 
 > appeal to the novice, and encourage the person to use design patterns 
 > effectively. 
 > 
 >   I have been using it extensively in development, and find it as productive 
 > a tool as STL itself. It is my intent to make it available to others, so 
 > people can use it and improve it, and make available a common reference & 
 > source for implementation common design patterns in C++.
 > 
 > Download earlier version
 > ------------------------
 >   A prior version of this library is available at 
 > http://www.digitallattice.com/page9.html. I must apologise that this version 
 > does not operate well on linux, primarily because of some idiosyncracies of 
 > SGI STL and standard STL. This will be resolved in a few weeks, as I am 
 > testing on different implementations.
 >  The URL is provided purely for reference.
 > 

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