Re: [Savannah-hackers] Lost in the (GNU) Savannah

[Mathieu Roy]

> I understand you cannot afford to be so straightforward. That's
> perfectly
> fine, but please: I gave you my word that it is PD, believe me, accept
> the
> project, and request me to put a COPYING file there a posteriori. I
> would
> have been glad to do so. We could have discussed the legal precautions
> I
> should have taken, after I would have had a web-site, a project
> configuration page, and a CVS repository. But I keep having to
> re-submit
> it, and it makes me frustrated. HE is about making people as not
> frustrated as possible. (without sacrificing security, or consistency
> or
> poewr, or other important factors, of course)

In fact, we know that is frustating to do the registration process many 
times. The problem is that a registration left in the queue, waiting 
for approval, requesting someone the give more information, to be ok 
with legal issues, is maybe a registration that will forever incomplete 
since it's frequent that someone create an account somewhere and never 
use it.
So the decision has been made to discard any project that doesnt fit 
the requirements. So the most of the project on savannah have done more 
than one registration.

Maybe we should implement something that make the second, third, 
registration easier (for example, when his registration is discarded, a 
user could receive and email with a url that permit him to redo the 
whole in one click : but this is interesting only if the first 
description is ok...) but I don't think we should do like SF.net, 
accept all the project without distinctions.
IMHO, savannah is not like SF.net, the goal is to host Free Software 
project that need to, not to host many project has we can since it 
could be a commercial argument (it is, obviously, for VA Software).

About your problem of Public Domain, maybe you are right, a COPYING 
file could be just fine. But it adding a short license (Public Domain) 
description is not a task so hard to do, it can be done in a few 
minutes.

Regards,

--
Mathieu Roy

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