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

[Xavier Nicolovici]

Hi,

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

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Jose San Leandro <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: Package: ContractChecker
> System name: contractchecker
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> ContractChecker is a small tool to provide support for some design by 
> contract features to standard Java code.
> The tool includes an Ant task, which delegates the process toa Doclet.
> Such Doclet generates AspectJ code to intercept all method calls 
> explicitly guarded with ContractChecker's Javadoc tags.
> Finally, the Ant task compiles everything using AspectJ's compiler.
>
> Other Software Required:
> Ant: http://ant.apache.org
> AspectJ: http://eclipse.org/aspectj/
> Qdox: http://qdox.codehaus.org
> JDK classes used: just java.lang.*, java.io.* and java.util.*, so it 
> should run in GNU Free Java environments. It has been tested using 
> Blackdown JDK (www.blackdown.org), which seems not free 
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200110/msg00024.html).
>  
>
>

You must determine whether your project can run on a Free
Software Java suite (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for more
information). 

We recommend you to test your project against GCJ+Classpath, and
ensure that your Java code runs on this Free Software Java suite.

GCJ is the GNU Compiler for Java, part of the GCC (GNU Compiler
Collection).  The Classpath project aims to develop a free and
portable implementation of the Java API (the classes in the 'Java'
package).
More information at http://gcc.gnu.org/ and
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/

Please provide us with more information about this point.

>
> Other Comments:
> Cannot provide a url, but could email a copy of the source code for 
> reviewing.
> .


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.

However, as you're not able to provide a URL pointing to your source code,
you can forward the code to me by email. Upon review, we
will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

Xavier Nicolovici