Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Software developped by Linux User Group - savannah.gnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
I'm afraid some of the software you propose to upload in this project falls
beyond the scope of Savannah and cannot be hosted here: if I'm not mistaken,
the utilities for Texas Instruments calculator will require TI's native
calculator operating system which is proprietary; even though the utilities
you've created are 100% Free Software, users of 100% Free systems (such as
Debian GNU/Linux) cannot use them unless they buy proprietary software, which
is something we do not want to encourage.

The php-nuke-like application over JSP would also have to run on a free
software java platform (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/), i.e. it can
not depend on proprietary products such as JDK.

If you can make versions of your projects that will run in a completely free
software platform (for instance if the TI utilities can also be compiled in a
Debian GNU/Linux system) then it is OK to host them here and you can provide
both the proprietary-independent and proprietary-dependent versions.

I suggest that you break your project into different projects to submit them
to Savannah, and in each case explain clearly their dependences to allow us to
verify that they can be used by Savannah users who do not use any proprietary
products.

Regards,
Jaime

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:44:23AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Mauro Chiarugi <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Software developped by Linux User Group 
> System name: lugfsgancona
> Type: GNU
> 
> Description:
> Hi, i wrote like member of LUG/FSG of Ancona, italy. We don\'t want a space 
> for a website or similar, but we\'d like to upload our project in a small 
> area of savannah. For this reason, i\'m writing to you. 
> We are developping some projects, others are just finished.
> We have developped a lot of utility for Texas Instruments calculator. This 
> software is GPL. We have also developped a web site (our official website) 
> with php e mysql. It\'s GPL. Now i\'m developping a small application server 
> like php-Nuke, but in JSP. Others people are developping a robot simulator 
> (from YAKS), a file manager (from xdu), and a small organizer for dentists. 
> I know that these project are very different each other, but if we can have a 
> project area on savannah we can develop software together.
> You can find other informations here:
> 
> http://www.polarhome.com/~anlug/
>