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

[Loic Dachary]

Dan Helfman writes:
 > Loic,
 > 
 > I can very much understand your concerns. My only hesitation in putting
 > the full license notice at the top of every source file is that anyone
 > looking at a file has to scroll down past the notice everytime to really
 > get to the meat of the code. This might seem like a minor worry, but it
 > makes it that much more difficult to work with the source code on a
 > regular basis. Would you object to me putting the full notice at the
 > bottom of the file, perhaps with small note at the top mentioning it? If
 > this is a problem, please let me know. I do want to get things settled
 > and compliant so that I can finally get the project approved. I
 > apologize for any trouble.

        You can indeed put the notice at the end of the file. 

 > Dan
 > 
 > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:47:45AM +0100, Loic Dachary wrote:
 > > 
 > >    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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 > Dan Helfman
 > Torsion OS: http://torsion.org