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

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

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

The license you chose qualifies your project as free software but it
is incompatible with the GNU GPL.

MPL 1.0 is incompatible with the GNU GPL.  That is, combining a module
covered by the GPL with a module covered by the MPL is not legal.  MPL
1.1, however, allows (section 13) a program (or parts of it) to
offer a choice of another license as well.  Any part of a program that
allows the GNU GPL, or many of its variants, as an alternate choice,
is considered to have a GPL-compatible license.

We host only software published under licenses compatible with the
GPL, which allows developers to combine files from any project without
fear of a licensing problem.  If you're willing to switch to a
GPL-compatible license, or dual license with a GPL-compatible license
and a MPL 1.1 license, please resubmit.

You can read a discussion of various licenses at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for more information.

Regards,

Rudy


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:39:32PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
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> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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> Edward B. Wilson II <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: The Mozilla Public License (MPL).
> 
> Since this is a programming language, we need to allow users to link against 
> various libs with restrictions.  The language itself is complete free, open, 
> and non-commercial, however, users need to be able to use it as broadly as 
> their needs dictate.
> Package: Pragmatic
> System name: pragmatic
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Pragmatic
> =========
> We are working on a new free programming language called 'Pragmatic'.  We 
> have no source code at this time; we are still in the syntactic discovery 
> process.
> 
> Our code will be completely open and completely free (in both free speech and 
> free beer)
> 
> We will most likely code the language using gcc as the reference compiler, 
> but our goal is to support compiling under any ansi C compiler.
> 
> We want to output a gcc front-end which gcc can compile to machine.
> 
> We have no website as of yet to refer to but will shortly once our project 
> matures.
>   
> 
> Other Software Required:
> None, our language is to be completely GNU compatible with glibc.  We are 
> striving for maximum portability.
> 
> Other Comments:
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