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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MiMMS isn't an MMS Message Sender -
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Elfyn McBratney |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MiMMS isn't an MMS Message Sender - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Sat, 31 Jul 2004 02:09:08 +0100 |
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Hello Wesley,
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:32:12PM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> Hi Elfyn,
>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> On Monday 26 July 2004 15:34, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
>
> > In order to release your project properly and unambiguously
> > under the GPL, please place copyright notices and permission-to-copy
> > statements at the beginning of every file of source code.
>
> You are absolutely correct; since I first submitted this application,
> I've done some work fixing up the licensing notices. This was work that
> had to be done anyway to get mimms into Debian, which I did shortly
> after I first submitted the request for project hosting.
>
> The current source of mimms has the following copyright statements:
>
> For my (heavy) modifications:
>
> /*
> * Copyright (C) 2004 Wesley J. Landaker <address@hidden>
> *
> * MiMMS 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.
> *
> * MiMMS 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
> */
>
> And for the original code it's derived from -- taken verbatim:
>
> /*
> * Copyright (C) 2000-2001 major mms
> <http://www.geocities.com/majormms/>
> *
> * This file is part of libmms
> *
> * libmms 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.
> *
> * libmms 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
> *
> */
I am not sure whether the above copyright attribution is valid - or
even legal. To be sure, I will contact someone at the FSF to try
and find out.
I will contact you as soon as I hear from them.
--
Elfyn McBratney
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