Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Free Virtual Hosting Control Panel - savannah.nongnu.org

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hi,

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

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:59:05PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> James W. Thompson, II <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Free Virtual Hosting Control Panel
> System name: freevhcp
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> The goal of this project is to provide a Free alternative to virtual
> hosting control panel systems such as Plesk, Ensim and Helm written
> in Perl and licensed under the GPL. While programs such as Webmin and
> its virtual hosting extension Virtualmin exist as Free Software, they
> are not quite on par with the UI design and features of commercial
> systems. Although designed primarily for Linux and other 'Unix'
> systems the system will be designed to be portable enough to be
> converted for use on any system which supports Perl.

"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.

> Other Software Required:
> Perl and various CPAN modules, Apache, vsFTPd, Courier, AWStats,
> MySQL, PostgreSQL, SpamAssassin.

Not all modules on CPAN are released under GPL compatible licenses,
or are dual-licensed Artictic and GPL.  So, you will have to make
sure that any modules you use in your project are Free Software.

For more information, see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense.

Please reply and include an (temporary) URL pointing to the source
code.  The description you gave when registering will not be read
by the general public. If you are still concerned with privacy,
however, you can forward the code to me by email (address@hidden).

We wish to review your source code, even if it is not functional,
to catch potential legal issues early.  

For example, to release your program properly under the GPL you must
include a copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements at the 
beginning of every file of source code.  This is explained in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.  Our review would help
catch potential omissions such as these.

If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

-- 
Elfyn McBratney
beu on irc.freenode.net/savannah.[non]gnu.org

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