Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The New Aspell

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Guillaume Morin wrote:

> Dans un message du 23 nov ? 17:25, address@hidden ?crivait :
> > Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: lgpl
> > Other License:
> > Package: The New Aspell
> > System name: aspell
> > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> >
> > The project here will be the merge of Aspell and Pspell.  The project
> > will be named the New Aspell until it becomes stable and it will then
> > become simply Aspell and the old Aspell and Pspell hosted on
> > sourceforge  will sease to exist. An announcment about the merge can
> > be found at http://pspell.sourceforge.net/merge.html.  However note
> > that I plan on going with Aspell as the name rather than Pspell, but
> > this is not set it turn so I would like to have the possiblilty of
> > renaming the project.
>
> I've approved your project. But, I've looked at the aspell and pspell
> sources in the SF CVS and they do not contain any copyright notice.
> Therefore, from a stricly legal point of view, they are not Free
> Software. We normally ask the authors to add a proper copyright notice
> _before_ we approve the project. In this case, I think it wouldn't have
> made sense since you plan to merge both projects.
>
> That said, I ask you to add a proper copyright notice to your source
> files during the merge. I hope you understand our concers on this issue.
>
> A complete copyright notice for the LGPL MUST reside at the beginning of
> every source files.

I will make sure that I add due copyright notice to all my source files
before uploading the CVS Repository of the merge to Savannah.