Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Download area/hosting on freesoftware.fsf.org

[mathieu]

> I see why we would want to host it under the FSF TLD to make sure
> people realize the FSF provides this service, but I think we should
> make sure people can easily distinguish between official FSF Projects,
> official GNU Projects and projects that are merely hosted on savannah.

I see an another reason of hosting project under the FSF TLD : ... a 
reason in the developper point of view, and not the FSF one. It means 
for him and his user that is software IS REALLY a free software, clear 
about licensing issues.

Interesting standing, especially when many Free Software related people 
seems, now, to be unclear (VA Software with sourceforge, SuSE with 
Yast, Ximian with eventual proprietary modules in Evolution).

>  rs> The real cause of his anger seems to be that we are hosting a
>  rs> forked version of his program.
>
> Although Jörg Schilling tends to overreact, seeing how it looks from
> his side, I can somewhat understand why he would be upset. It
> apparently looks to him that someone takes 6 years of his work,
> applies a patch by someone else that didn't make it into the main
> version because it was poorly written and broke hardware support on
> many CD writers and then asks for donations to keep up the work. All
> of this without ever contacting him once.


* DESCRIPTION ON SAVANNAH
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/dvdrtools
« This project is not part of the GNU project.

A fork of cdrtools with support for writing DVDs. »

* http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/dvdrtools/
« dvdrtools is a fork of cdrtools, with the primary goal of supporting 
writable DVD drives. The initial version was released February 4, 2002. 
»

It seems to me explicit that this software is a fork and is not 
affiliated the GNU project.


> However: I'm trying to get the complete picture and believe it'll be
> resolved somehow, so there is no point in discussing the specific
> case. Of course we all believe in the freedom to fork, so does Jörg,
> afaik, but that was not the question.

The whole thing seems to be only this specific discussions :

- How many people that develop Free Software have never heard about 
Savannah as Jörg do ?
- Isn't the FSF responsible of the savannah content (and if not, why 
selecting and rejecting projects, so ?)



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mathieu

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