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

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

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

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:44:03AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Rob Cherry <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: KnowledgeTree
> System name: kt
> Type: GNU
> 
> Description:
> KnowledgeTree is an Open Source document management system. The product 
> provides a content repository, workflow and routing of content, content 
> publication and content metrics definition and analysis.  It is current at 
> product standard:

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 its founders means something pretty
close to Free Software, it's frequently misunderstood.  For more
information, read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html


> 
> KnowledgeTree is written in PHP and uses a MySql database.  It has been 
> tested and runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris (using Apache and 
> IPlanet).

"Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system
that we like to refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize
the ideals of the Free Software movement.


Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS
to GNU/Linux?

For more information, see
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html


> 
> Project home page: http://www.jamwarehouse.com/products.asp
> 
> Source code (windows): 
> http://www.jamwarehouse.com/knowledgetree/knowledgetree-1.1.1.zip
> 
> Source code (unix):
> http://www.jamwarehouse.com/knowledgetree/knowledgetree-1.1.1.tgz
> 
> Source code of indexer:
> http://www.jamwarehouse.com/knowledgetree/FileIndexer_src_v1_1_1.zip

 Please remove GIF image files from your project and
replace them with an other format (such as PNG or JPEG).

Because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW
compression algorithm which are used when making GIF files,
it's impossible to have free software to generate proper
GIFs.  They also apply to the compress program.

For more information read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Before releasing your project under the GPL, please place
copyright notices and permission to copy statements at the beginning
of every file of source code.  

In addition, if you haven't already, please copy a copy of the plain
text version of the GPL, available from
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt), into a file named "COPYING".

Additional instructions are available from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.  To learn
why a copy of the GPL must be included with every copy of the code,
for example, go to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude

E.g.  * Licensed under the GNU GPL. For full terms see the file
DOCS/COPYING.
is not enough.  

Please register your project once more with the changes
mentioned above.  

We cannot track projects that have been answered but not approved, so
we must ask you to register the project whenever you change the
registration. Make sure to apply all changes so you need to reregister
only once.

The re-registration URL found in our acknowledgement of your earlier
registration will direct you to the proper location.

Regards,

Rudy

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