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

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

Thanks for clarifying things up. I think an ability to queue rejected
project proposals so that they can be modified and re-submitted is a good
idea. If you can hack the PHP code to do it easily, it would certainly
make using the site more enjoyable. Of course, you may wish to make the
requests more verbose, or to link to a "frustration-prevention" page that
describes everything a developer can do wrong.

My problem is that even assuming I submit lm-solve - how much more legal
hassles I'll have to take with. Here is some info about the project, let
me know what you think:

1. lm-solve is a Perl 5 API and a command-line program to solve some
types of Logic Mazes (http://www.logicmazes.com/).

2. It is not a derived work. All the code is original

3. I'd like to make copyright-free or at least MIT X11 or BSD
sans-notification. It will remain under this license, until I found a very
good reason to convert it, which I cannot forsee now.

4. The Logic Mazes' web applets are not open-source. (I hope it's OK if I
use this term - ;-)) It is possible to write Free Software implementation
of them for any platform.

5. It is possible that the board layouts are copyrighted (you have
to ask their creators) but it is possible to create such that are not,
and processing such layouts is possible according to the Free Software
definition. I have inputted some of them into text files which I make no
claim for. I'd like people to be able to download a collection of them so
they won't need to input them times and again.

6. I cannot guarantee that everything that appears on the site or on the
mailing list is free content. Neither it is a reasonable demand. I can
make sure the documents that describe the projects are free doc but it is
possible that I may choose to display E-mail messages that were sent to
the list, etc. It won't be good HE to ask their senders to license them
under a free documentation license, nor is it realistic or practical.

7. As a conclusion of 5, the CVS may carry some non-free content.

That's what I can think of for the moment. The project is under
development but is still usable and stable. The layout format is not very
user friendly, but I have an idea of making a better one, which will take
some coding effort. I cannot guarantee that I will dedicate some time to
it at any given time. (I am actually quite busy in many academic and
extra-corricular activities) But it's there, and people can hopefully take
my place, assuming I lose interest. (in which case I will appoint someone
else as an administrator of the project)

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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