Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Child protect system LogProtect - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

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

> philippe jarlov <address@hidden> a décrit le projet comme suit :
> Licence: gpl
> Autre Licence: 
> Paquet: Child protect system LogProtect
> Nom système: logprotect
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> LogProtect is a sofware used to protect children from pedophile
> activity on Internet, particulary on T'chat.
> LogProtect is GPL licence and running for this moment on Windows. We
> are working to develop it for Linux so it would work as a server to
> protect networks, for exemple schools.
> Our team is about 6 developers. It's a non commercial project.
> LogProtect for Windows is running under Delphi code, for Linux, it
> will be C, so in the future it will run on every os, of course,
> under GPL licence.
> The website is actualy www.logprotect.net and the source code can be
> downloaded at http://www.logprotect.net/modules/mydownloads/ .

Even though your project is Free Software it can not be hosted
here.  We only host projects that can run on a free operating
system (such as Debian GNU/Linux).  

We have adopted this policy because now that completely free operating
systems exist, we do not want to encourage users of those systems to
start using proprietary operating systems so that they can use your
program.

If you are willing to maintain a version for free operating systems,
which work as well as or better than other ports, you can
then provide versions for nonfree systems as well.  The idea is that at
no point should only-free users be at a disadvantage compared to users of
proprietary software.

Your project should always work equally well in free systems as in any
other version you provide; if you have some modules for nonfree
systems, you can delay their release until you have released the free
operating system version.

If you accept this commitment then please register your project again
and it should be approved in Savannah.

Note that since the MS Windows version uses Delphi, we won't be able
to host it at Savannah, since it would encourage people to use that
proprieraty compiler. We could host the version for GNU/Linux alone,
though. By the way, "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. For more information, see
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain