Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Digital Notary

[Guillaume Morin]

Dans un message du 24 nov à 19:39, address@hidden écrivait :
> Horst Herb <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: GNU Digital Notary
> System name: gnotary
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> The GNotary Digital Notary Service allows to provide peer-to-peer
> certification of digital documents.
> 
> It was born out of the need to certify the integrity of medical
> records, but it is useful for any domain where proof of document
> integrity for a given point in time is needed.
> GNotary is implemented as a set of Python scripts: the \"server\"
> polls an email account (or filters specified mailbox files), digitally
> signs & timestamps the message and sends it back via email.
> The \"client\" is just a convenience script providing a graphical user
> interface (made portable by using wxPython) to the process of
> selecting files, creating secure hashes of these fiules, and sending a
> list of these secure hashes by email to one or more specified gnotary
> servers.
> It already exists and you can see it at http://gnumed.net/gnotary

Unless I am mistaken, your code does not contain a complete copyright
notice. Therefore from a strictly legal point of view, gnotary is not
free software. Could you correct the copyright notice at the beginning
of every source file and resubmit your project please ?

Here is an example 

"""
    Copyright (C) year1,year2 Author1,Author2

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
"""

Furthermore, it seems that your project is not (yet :-) a GNU Software.
Therefore, could you resubmit your project as `Digital Notary' ? We'll
change the name after it's approved.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Regards,

-- 
Guillaume Morin <address@hidden>

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