Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The Base Framework

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic. Would you
agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later" ? The main motive is
that in ten years from now the copyright holder may not be reachable
while the legal system has changed and calls for a new version of the
GNU GPL v2. When that happens, licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only"
blocks the software : it is impossible to upgrade to the new license.

        I can explain in more details if you need so that the reasons
why Savannah only hosts "GNU GPL v2 or later" software becomes clear.
If you have concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", I'd be happy to
address them too.

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Rene Moeller Fonseca <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: other
 > Other License: GNU General Public License, version 2 only
 > 
 > Package: The Base Framework
 > System name: base
 > Type: 2
 > 
 > Description:
 > The Base Framework is a framework for developing platform independent 
 > applications in the C++ programming language.
 > 
 > The motivation for this project is to provide a complete, self-contained, 
 > and simple to use framework for general application development. Special 
 > care has been undertaken during the design and implementation of the 
 > framework to make the platform fully transparent to the application 
 > developer.
 > 
 > The project has a third name \"base-framework\".
 > 
 > The framework currently supports Unices (including GNU/Linux) and Win32  
 > platforms.
 > 
 > I have written the framework from scratch during the last couple of years.
 > 
 > The framework is licensed under the GNU GPL (only version 2) but the project 
 > will be relicensed under less restrictive terms in the future.
 > 
 > The home page is available at
 > http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca/base/html_chapters/
 > 
 > An overview of the functionality provided by the framework is given at:
 > http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca/base/html_chapters/ch-design.html
 > 
 > It already exists and you can download the latest snapshot at 
 > http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca/distribution/base-framework/nightly/snapshots/base-latest.tar.bz2
 > 
 > The framework has not been released yet! But this will happen in the near 
 > future.
 > 
 > API documentation is available at
 > http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca/base/api/html/main.html
 > 
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > The framework currently only works with GCC 3.x
 > However, the framework does NOT make use of a C++ Standard Template Library 
 > implementation only the basic runtime support for exception handling and so 
 > on.
 > 
 > Other dependencies:
 > A demangling API implementation (v3mv is built into the framework).
 > A regular expression implementation (e.g pcre).
 > XML parser implementation (e.g. XMLSoft XML Library)
 > 
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > Nightly build reports are available at:
 > http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~fonseca/base/builds.php
 > 
 > Checkout the home page for further information.

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