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

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

Like I said in my previous mail:

To release your project under the GPL, you should put
copyright notices and copying permission statements
at the beginning of every source-code file, and
include a copy of the plain text version of the GPL
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).
Put it in a file named COPYING.

Please follow the advice of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The GPL FAQ explain the reason behind these recommendations.  For
example, there is an entry explaining why the GPL requires including a
copy of the GPL with every copy of the program:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude


This means:

The copying permission statement should come right after the copyright
notices. For a one-file program, the statement (for the GPL) should
look like this: 


    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

For programs that are more than one file, it is better to replace
"this program" with the name of the program, and begin the statement
with a line saying "This file is part of NAME". For instance,


    This file is part of Foobar.

    Foobar 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.

    Foobar 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 Foobar; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
    Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Please provide me a updated tarball.

Rudy

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:49:39PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Zonecheck Team <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: ZoneCheck is copyright AFNIC, 2003. It is written and 
> maintained by
> Stephane D\'Alu <address@hidden>. You can contact AFNIC at <address@hidden>,
> or for technical questions/patches about this software at
> the following address <address@hidden>.
> 
> The Ruby DNS library (in the lib/ directory) is licenced like Ruby
> (either GPL or the Ruby licence, see
> <URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt> for details).
> 
> ZoneCheck terms of use and distribution:
> 
> You can use, modify and distribute ZoneCheck according to the GPL v2
> (GNU General Public License) <URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>,
> a copy has been made available in the file \'GPL\'.
> To summarize (a lot!), it means you can use ZoneCheck freely (but not
> to link it with software which is not GPL-compatible), you can have 
> the source code, you can distribute it freely (even after modifications)
> BUT you cannot deny these freedoms to the people who receive it: for
> instance, you must provide them with the source code.
> 
> Alternatively, if you want to use or distribute a version of ZoneCheck
> in a way which is not compatible with the GPL you *must* get an
> agreement from AFNIC which will give you the right to use the
> following terms. The license is therefore *not* a disjunctive
> license. To use the \"MIT/X11\"-like license hereafter, you need a
> personal agreement with AFNIC.
> 
> ----------- Terms after relicencing, for the licencee only ----
> 
> Permission is hereby granted, to <<the licencee>> obtaining a copy of
> this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to
> deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
> sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit
> individuals or organizations to whom the Software is furnished to do
> so, subject to the following conditions:
> 
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> 
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
> LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
> OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
> WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> 
> -- WARNING ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Patch submitters are therefore informed that, for the patches to be
> included, you must agree on this possible relicensing.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> References that you may find interesting:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=778&group_id=1
> 
> Package: ZoneCheck
> System name: zonecheck
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
>  The DNS is a critical resource that is needed by every network application, 
> so it is important to ensure that a zone or domain name is correctly 
> configured in the DNS, otherwise you could see appearing a dramatical 
> increase in the latency of your application up to the return of 
> unexpected/inconsistant results.
> 
> This is to help solving this misconfiguration or inconsistencies that 
> ZoneCheck has been designed, it will allow you to check your domain name and 
> generate a detailled report to help you fixing the eventual problems. 
> 
> main page:
> http://zonecheck.nic.fr/
> 
> download:
> http://zonecheck.nic.fr/download/v2/
> 
> Other Software Required:
> ruby, gtk2, iconv
> 
> 
> Other Comments:
> 
> 
> 
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