Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Logic Mazes Solver

[mathieu]

> > At present the situation is
> > unclear. Could you fix this please (adding a copyright notice and
> X11
> > license notice at the beginning of each file for instance) and
> submit your
> > project again ?
> >
>
> I'm not going to add a copyright (or in my case - lack of it) notice
> at
> the beginning of each file, because for the time being I have better
> things to
> do with my time.

In fact, this more a requirement than a request.

Since any files of a free software can be extracted from this project 
and put in an another project, any files should provide a copyright and 
license notice.

You can do this with ease with a small shell command as, for example, 
typing it in each dirs :

echo "/* copyright bla bla */" > copyright.tmp
for file in *; do cat copyright.tmp > "$file".tmp && cat "$file" >> 
"$file.tmp" && mv -f "$file.tmp" "$file" ; done
rm -f copyright.tmp



> It's a spoof on the fact that whenever I (and probably others)
> download a
> software and see the file COPYING there, they assume it is GPL. I
> ripped
> it from Freecell Solver, which is a more mature project that I coded.
> So,
> I kind of tell them to relax because it is distributed under a less
> restrictive license.

To me, public domain is free beer for proprietary developpers.
As you can see, anyone can give personnal point of views as this.

But, for your project hosted on savannah, it should be better to avoid 
giving this kind of point of views. Using savannah dont mean you agree 
with everything written on gnu.org, but savannah project description is 
not the right place to criticizes GNU licenses or GNU Philosophy.

> Oh, and for the record, it does imply that I'm not too fond of the
> GPL.

It was some kind self explaining.



Regards,

--
mathieu