Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of BananaHead Point Of Sale

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
I'm sorry but your software is not Free Software. Even if it is free for
everybody else but "Football clubs resident in the United Kingdom", by
excluding someone it becomes proprietary.

That's something we have to live with when we release Free Software: someone
with evil practices that we do not support is treated on the same level as our
friends; it does not mean that we support their evil practices and we can
oppose them in other ways, but not by imposing license restrictions that would
turn our software proprietary.

If you decide to remove that clause 12 from your license, you can then
register your project again.

Cheers,
Jaime

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:32:24PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Al Kingsley <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: BananaHead Point Of Sale
> System name: bananapos
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> My project is a point of sale software system. It comprises of a server, 
> client, a few libaries, and a couple of utilities. The server uses the MySql 
> database to store information (PLUs - price lookup units, and transactional 
> information). The client and utilities are gtkmm based. The client libraries 
> cover the hardware associated with POS equipment, viz: keyboard, keylock, 
> barcode scanner, magswipe reader, smartcard reader, customer display, receipt 
> printer, MICR. The common libraries include config, locale, currency, group, 
> and transaction. The server libararies include clientinfo, sql, event, and 
> credit card validation. The utilities include a printer definition program 
> and a receipt layout program, both read and write in xml format that the 
> libraries can read. A server control program. An error server for client 
> monitoring, a cash setting program, and a messenger client. The server is 
> multithreaded and handles UDP and TCP clients. There is also a multicast 
> channel for syst!
> em messages to the clients. There\'s also several scripts for things like: 
> PLU cacheing, transaction storage, and backing up. A start has been made on 
> some PHP web pages to administer this end of things.
> 
> 
> 
> It already exists in beta form and you can see it at http://bananahead.com/