Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Lyrik

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        I see that you've accidentaly truncated the GNU GPL (as found
at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt) in the COPYING file you distribute
with your software. The "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs"
section displayed below is missing.

        In the lyrik.lsm file you incorrectly refer to the license as : GNU
Public License (it is GNU General Public License). We would also be grateful
(in the same file) if you could refer to the operating system as GNU/Linux
and not Linux alone. It helps spread the ideals of freedom that are the
foundations of the Free Software movement.

        I also see that the lyrik.cpp file does not display the usual
license notice (see below for a template). The copyright notice file is

    copyright            : (C) 2001 by Divide by Zero

        which would be fine if you were known as "Divide by Zero" but
I doubt this is written on your id card ;-) You should put your real name
here otherwise you won't be able to claim that publishing this software
under the GNU GPL was your intention (instead it will be mistaken as the
intention of someone hypotheticaly named "Dived by Zero".

        Could you please fix these issues and submit your project again ?

        Thanks in advance,

----
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:

    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:

  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
Public License instead of this License.

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Rafa? Rzepecki <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Lyrik
 > System name: lyrik
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > My project, called Lyrik, is a plug-in for the KDE media player (Noatun), 
 > which enables lyrics display during song playback. It tries to find a file 
 > called like the song, except for the .txt or .tag extension, and, if found, 
 > reads lyrics text from it. The files should be tagged with time tags in 
 > order for the plug-in to know when to show the specific line.
 > 
 > It already exists and you can download the latest distribution at 
 > http://web.pertus.com.pl/~lyrik/lyrik-0.1.tar.gz
 > 

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