Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of usigcfest - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

We only host FREE (as in freedom) projects.  

Note that Savannah supports projects of the Free Software
movement, not projects of the Open Source movement.
We are careful about ethical issues and insist on
producing software that is not dependent on proprietary
software.

While Open Source as defined by it's founders means 
Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.
For more information, read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html

Note also that commercial does not means proprietary. 
Free Software can be "free as beer" but it means free
as freedom. And so, it can be commercialized.
For instance, while RedHat sells a distribution, it can be
seen as commercialization of software and it's still Free
Software; there are no conflicts with the free licenses.

Rudy

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> D Hines <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: At this time, it has not been decided whether or not code from 
> this project will be released to the public at large.  However, it is being 
> developed SOLELY for the non-commercial use of a non-profit user\'s group, 
> developed and provided for FREE by a group of unpaid volunteers.
> Package: usigcfest
> System name: usigcfest
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> This CVS host will be used to enable development of code to be used at 
> ComputerFest, which is a bi-annual show run for the benefit of the Dayton 
> Microcomputer Association (DMA), a non-profit user\'s group, and one of the 
> oldest computer ethusiasts groups in the U.S.
> 
> It will be written primarily in Java, with a FEW web components (almost all 
> JSP\'s, which are themselves essentially compilable code), and utilize only 
> free software.
> 
> URLS:
> 
> ComputerFest - http://www.computerfest.com
> DMA - http://www.dma.org
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Primarily items such as Tomcat; other software unknown at this time.
> 
> Other Comments:
> It is unknown at this time if the code for this project will be released as 
> open source.  It will NOT ever be commercially sold, however.  If it remains 
> unreleased into the public domain, it will continue to be for the sole, FREE, 
> non-commercial use of ComputerFest and the DMA.
> 
> 
> 
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