Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Torsion Operating System

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        I was probably not clear enough in my previous mail.  License notices
need to be put in each source file, not just in the README. Think about the
following situation, for instance: someone extracts a file from torsion, 
puts it in its own software. The current notice says to look in the README
file and it is very likely that the README file of the other guy software
is not the same as yours. Hence the user of the other software would have
troubles figuring out the licensing terms. 

        It may seem a wast of bytes to include the license notice at the
beginning of each files, but there are good reasons for this and it is
important to ensure that torsion is well covered by the GNU GPL.

        Could you please fix this and submit your project again ?

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Dan Helfman <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Torsion Operating System
 > System name: torsion
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Torsion will eventually be a single address space multitasking operating
 > system with transparent data persistence. This means that neither the
 > user nor the application programmer needs to know or care about the fact
 > that system memory is only transient and must be written to disk in
 > order to persist across reboots. All of those details are taken care of
 > by the operating system, so that once a document or any data is created,
 > it exists until it\'s explicitly destroyed. Sort of like objects in the
 > real world.
 >  
 > It already exists and you can see it at http://torsion.org/
 > 

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