[Savannah-hackers] [ 100359 ] Requirements clarification

[nobody]

Support Request #100359, was updated on 2002-Jan-28 12:44
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Category: None
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Summary: Requirements clarification

By: mattbehrens
Date: 2002-Jan-29 16:11

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Hi,

solpkg is now on
<http://developer.berlios.de/projects/solpkg/>, and I have
migrated everything important.

Thanks!

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By: villate
Date: 2002-Jan-28 13:58

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Oops. Sorry we missed the fact that your project depends 
on non-free software when we approved it. We've always had 
this requirement in Savannah, and we've always checked for 
that requirement when we approve new projects.
We used to explain the requirement personally to people 
who registered non-free dependent projects. On December 
17th, the requirement was written explicitely, just a few 
hours before your project was approved, as you can see in
https://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/savannah/savannah/www/register/requirements.php

Of course, your project submission was sent before the 
17th, when the text was not explicitely written there and 
it escaped us to tell you that.

There is no doubt that your project has been written in 
the spirit of the Free Software movement and that it will 
help enormously this movement by allowing people who have 
to work in the Solaris platform to use Free Software. But
since we want to keep Savannah as a repository of software 
that can be used without any non-free software, your 
project should not be hosted here.
It can be argued that your project can be useful even for 
GNU/Linux users (one can compile something and even use 
the sourcedcode as a good programming example), but those 
users could not use your software for the purpose it was 
intended (unless you made it a general, multi-platform 
software installer).

Please find another hosting platform, and when your 
project can be removed let us know.
(address@hidden)


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