Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MiMMS isn't an MMS Message Sender - savannah.nongnu.org

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hello Wesley,

Apologies for the *huge* delay!

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailled information about the approval.

Best,
Elfyn

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 02:09:08AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> 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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